diff --git a/tests/contents/server.mjs b/tests/contents/server.mjs
index b14ce29945..4334ed363e 100644
--- a/tests/contents/server.mjs
+++ b/tests/contents/server.mjs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ const DEFAULT_CONTENT_SERVER_PORT = 3000;
  * @param {number} port
  * @returns {Object}
  */
-export function createContentServer(port = DEFAULT_CONTENT_SERVER_PORT) {
+export default function createContentServer(port = DEFAULT_CONTENT_SERVER_PORT) {
   const server = createServer(function (req, res) {
     if (routeObj[req.url] == null) {
       res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
@@ -143,10 +143,3 @@ function parseRangeHeader(rangeHeader, dataLength) {
   }
   return [rangesNb[0], rangesNb[1]];
 }
-/** Default export that returns a teardown function that is executed by
- * Vitest on test run
- * @see https://vitest.dev/config/#globalsetup
- * */
-export default () => {
-  createContentServer();
-};
diff --git a/tests/globalSetup.mjs b/tests/globalSetup.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f608e25a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/globalSetup.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import createContentServer from "./contents/server.mjs";
+
+const realConsoleWarn = console.warn;
+let contentServer;
+
+/**
+ * Peform actions we want to setup before tests.
+ */
+export function setup() {
+  removeAnnoyingDeprecationNotice();
+  contentServer = createContentServer();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Peform actions to clean-up after tests.
+ */
+export function teardown() {
+  contentServer?.close();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Webdriverio just spams a deprecation notice with the current version of
+ * vitest (one per test, though as we have thousands of tests, it just fills the
+ * output into something unreadable).
+ *
+ * This is so annoying that I just chose to mute it by monkey-patching the
+ * console function here.
+ *
+ * This should hopefully be very temporary.
+ */
+function removeAnnoyingDeprecationNotice() {
+  console.warn = function (...args) {
+    if (
+      typeof args[0] === "string" &&
+      args[0].startsWith(
+        '⚠️ [WEBDRIVERIO DEPRECATION NOTICE] The "switchToFrame" command is deprecated and we encourage everyone to use `switchFrame` instead for switching into frames.',
+      )
+    ) {
+      return;
+    }
+    return realConsoleWarn.apply(console, args);
+  };
+}
diff --git a/vitest.config.mjs b/vitest.config.mjs
index 080b826fb4..9f924e2105 100644
--- a/vitest.config.mjs
+++ b/vitest.config.mjs
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
       // memory tests
       "tests/memory/**/*.[jt]s?(x)",
     ],
-    globalSetup: "tests/contents/server.mjs",
+    globalSetup: "tests/globalSetup.mjs",
     browser: getBrowserConfig(process.env.BROWSER_CONFIG ?? "chrome"),
   },
 });