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Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by keehun »

atestu wrote: post #67
miles wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To his credit, the author has released the source for the Chrome and Firefox versions: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader However, I posed the same question in the MAS about the closed-source Safari version, which requires full access to webpage contents ("Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages") and browsing history ("Can see when you…

But there's no proof that the published source code is the source code of the extension! You still have to just trust them

You can always load your own from source.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by gsich »

atestu wrote: post #67
miles wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To his credit, the author has released the source for the Chrome and Firefox versions: https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader However, I posed the same question in the MAS about the closed-source Safari version, which requires full access to webpage contents ("Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages") and browsing history ("Can see when you…

But there's no proof that the published source code is the source code of the extension! You still have to just trust them

You don't need to install from the store.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by balibebas »

psychometry wrote: post #43

How can I trust that this extension, which has access to every page I visit, doesn't steal my data? How can I trust that if someone else takes over the project and releases an update, that my data is still secure? Looks great, but I'm just so skeptical of browser extensions now.

That's a valid concern. Certainly an easy way to Target an audience to get at a rich set of data. But who's to say Chromium isn't doing this already anyway?

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by kristofferR »

alexanderby wrote: post #46
defanor wrote: post #12

While it is nice, there are more lightweight and snappy ways to achieve a dark background (or desirable styles in general) -- such as setting a global CSS, using built-in color overriding (at least in FF it's available, along with font overriding), using web browsers that don't apply CSS. Some people even use system-wide color inversion. Each method has its pros and cons though. Stylus is one of the handy FF extensio…

Dark Reader also offers static CSS support https://darkreader.org/blog/stylish/ Global CSS will work well on text websites. For many others it will break up the coloring and make page parts hardly distinguishable.

Any plans to implement proper UserStyles.org support where themes can auto-update like with Stylus? Some of the most popular style sheets update quite frequently.

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by anyzen »

keehun wrote: post #71
atestu wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But there's no proof that the published source code is the source code of the extension! You still have to just trust them

You can always load your own from source.

Sure - but do you? Does anyone?

EDIT: a better solution would be if the store itself allowed you to inspect the source that went into building the plugin. Then you would only need to trust the store itself, which you already do (when you trust the browser).

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by balibebas »

With dark sites coming back en vogue with and even entire blogging platforms like After Dark[0] now available is the 90's all over again. Hopefully these new sites eschew the mistakes we've made harvesting data in the past.

[0] https://after-dark.habd.as

Re: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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Post by anewguy9000 »

dmos62 wrote: post #13

I tried this a few months back, I liked the visual effect and the configuration flexibility, but it ate at my CPU waaay too much. Anybody else have this? Was meaning to look for a lightweight alternative. Maybe I'll try this extension again to see if it's still a resource hog. Note: I'm on Firefox.

a fast and simple alternative for firefox (and android) is this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-light-m...

please let us know if it performs better for you! (i'm the author)

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