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Seems very useful, thanks. Curious how it affects cpu usage. Would be cool if you can explain how it works. I can see even the gifs and videos(which I think makes this even more useful) are rendered black & white.
I love this idea, but sadly it's not for me. I tried this on my phone (going grayscale) and turned it off after 1/2 a day. Too many apps rely on color to differentiate different parts of the app. It definitely gave me a greater appreciation for the plight of the colorblind, and it's why for my own company's products, we always test in B&W, to make sure no functionality is lost. Relatedly, does anyone have any links t…
I feel you. I tried to make it easy to toggle on and off in case you needed to check something in color, but it's a bit of a double edged sword in that it can be too easy to turn it off and leave it off. That's a big part of why I added the saved/excluded sites functionality, so you could add it for sites that are usually time wasters like reddit or facebook, or exclude sites from being gray that you need for work.
This extension should be one CSS line, why does it load 3 libraries as content scripts? :root {filter: grayscale(1) !important; background: #fff} I wish extensions had a native way to whitelist/blacklist websites. Until then, you're better off adding that line to Stylish.
The only library I'm loading is tinycolor.js, which I added for the togglable feature where it checks the site background colors and adds an appropriate gray for it. You'll find that making the background always be white doesn't actually work some of the time, especially for sites with darker backgrounds.
The extension is (god forbid) more than one line of code because I wanted to add features and controls I didn't see in other plugins, like:
* setting it for specific tabs
* setting it for all sites
* being able to save sites to always be gray
* being able to exclude sites from being gray when the "tab" or "all sites" settings are on
I too wish extensions had the built in functionality to add/remove saved sites, tabs, etc, but as that's not the case today, I had to do it myself with the chrome extension APIs.
Anything similar for Firefox?
Just try it out and let me know if it doesn't.
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I feel you. I tried to make it easy to toggle on and off in case you needed to check something in color, but it's a bit of a double edged sword in that it can be too easy to turn it off and leave it off. That's a big part of why I added the saved/excluded sites functionality, so you could add it for sites that are usually time wasters like reddit or facebook, or exclude sites from being gray that you need for work.
This is a good point. On the phone it was all or nothing. Here I can choose. So maybe I will give it another try!
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I feel you. I tried to make it easy to toggle on and off in case you needed to check something in color, but it's a bit of a double edged sword in that it can be too easy to turn it off and leave it off. That's a big part of why I added the saved/excluded sites functionality, so you could add it for sites that are usually time wasters like reddit or facebook, or exclude sites from being gray that you need for work.
This is a good point. On the phone it was all or nothing. Here I can choose. So maybe I will give it another try!
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This is a good point. On the phone it was all or nothing. Here I can choose. So maybe I will give it another try!
I'm not sure what kind of phone you have, but on an iPhone you can set your phone to toggle B&W and normal color by triple clicking the home button.
I love this idea, but sadly it's not for me. I tried this on my phone (going grayscale) and turned it off after 1/2 a day. Too many apps rely on color to differentiate different parts of the app. It definitely gave me a greater appreciation for the plight of the colorblind, and it's why for my own company's products, we always test in B&W, to make sure no functionality is lost. Relatedly, does anyone have any links t…
I had the same issue with the all-or-nothing phone experience because of maps that I use everyday for traffic.
I'm liking this so far.