diff --git a/src/livekit/TrackProcessorContext.tsx b/src/livekit/TrackProcessorContext.tsx
index 473f01dee..ab78179fe 100644
--- a/src/livekit/TrackProcessorContext.tsx
+++ b/src/livekit/TrackProcessorContext.tsx
@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ export function applyProcessor(
     }
     const track = videoTrack.mediaStreamTrack;
     videoTrack.setProcessor(processor).catch((e) => {
-      // The pipeline builds one track at a time, so a track can end while its
-      // build waits a turn. The camera's next track attaches it again.
       if (track.readyState === "ended")
         logger.debug("Video processor not attached: the track ended first");
       else logger.warn("Failed to attach video processor", e);
diff --git a/src/state/BackgroundEffects.ts b/src/state/BackgroundEffects.ts
index 5c50acc7d..3252d2c69 100644
--- a/src/state/BackgroundEffects.ts
+++ b/src/state/BackgroundEffects.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   type SwitchBackgroundProcessorOptions,
 } from "@livekit/track-processors";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
+import { deepCompare } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/utils";
 
 import { type Behavior } from "./Behavior";
 import { type ObservableScope } from "./ObservableScope";
@@ -23,11 +24,7 @@ export interface BackgroundEffectsOptions {
   supported: boolean;
   /** Whether blur is chosen. */
   blur$: Behavior<boolean>;
-  /**
-   * Shared by the pre-join preview and the call. Building or destroying it is
-   * what primes it, and a primed pipeline lets its next frame through
-   * untouched, so it is switched rather than rebuilt.
-   */
+  /** The background processor pipeline to be switched between effects. */
   pipeline: BackgroundProcessorWrapper;
 }
 
@@ -45,9 +42,9 @@ export class BackgroundEffects {
           (previous, wanted) => {
             // Attached the first time an effect is wanted and never detached
             // after, so someone who never turns one on pays for none of it.
-            const attached =
+            const enable =
               previous.processor !== undefined || (supported && wanted);
-            return { supported, processor: attached ? pipeline : undefined };
+            return { supported, processor: enable ? pipeline : undefined };
           },
           { supported, processor: undefined },
         ),
@@ -61,7 +58,7 @@ export class BackgroundEffects {
         map(([, blur]): SwitchBackgroundProcessorOptions =>
           blur ? { mode: "background-blur", blurRadius } : { mode: "disabled" },
         ),
-        distinctUntilChanged((a, b) => JSON.stringify(a) === JSON.stringify(b)),
+        distinctUntilChanged(deepCompare),
         scope.bind(),
       )
       .subscribe((options) => {
diff --git a/vite.config.ts b/vite.config.ts
index 2abba3dca..f3098b894 100644
--- a/vite.config.ts
+++ b/vite.config.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 
 import {
   loadEnv,
+  type Plugin,
   type PluginOption,
   searchForWorkspaceRoot,
   type ConfigEnv,
@@ -196,19 +197,13 @@ function exceptMediaPipeWasm(plugins: PluginOption): PluginOption {
     )
       return plugin;
     const transform = plugin.transform;
-    return {
+    const wrapped: Plugin = {
       ...plugin,
-      transform(this: unknown, code: string, id: string, options: unknown) {
+      transform(code, id, options) {
         if (isLoader(id)) return null;
-        return (
-          transform as (
-            this: unknown,
-            c: string,
-            i: string,
-            o: unknown,
-          ) => unknown
-        ).call(this, code, id, options);
+        return transform.call(this, code, id, options);
       },
-    } as PluginOption;
+    };
+    return wrapped;
   });
 }