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

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Post by 21 »

alexanderby wrote: post #54
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.

Firefox add-ons pass full source code review before the submission after the Stylish incident. Safari extensions also pass manual review, Apple asks developer to send an ID card photo. Not sure about Chrome, you have to simply trust me, the code is not obfuscated and you can always locate the files and see what the extension does in your browser. Google recently announced some security changes https://blog.chromium.o…

DO they also inspect the hundreds of npm packages an extension might use?

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

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Post by brobdingnagians »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #131
skymt wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: how well-lit is the area you use your computer in, and have you tried turning down your monitor's brightness? I'm as baffled by the popularity of dark themes as you are with light themes, but I'm sitting in a fairly bright room with natural light and a monitor at 35% brightness. In these conditions dark-on-light and light-on-dark text are equally pleasant to read, and I opt for light themes when give…

It really bugs me for my monitor to not be at or near max brightness because of how terrible the colors look at low brightness, even on high end IPS panels. This isn’t an issue on my OLED phone, which has great colors even at the lowest brightness, but nobody makes 27” OLED monitors and if they did they’d be prohibitively expensive.

I use Redshift continuously day & night and at first it looked really weird with the red tint, but after awhile my brain got used to it and now I don't notice at all (and it is a lot more comfortable), looking at other peoples' screens looks blindingly bright; makes me feel like a vampire...

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

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Post by deepnet »

My late night tired eyes, thank you - now I can browse without waking my partner :)

The white sheet of paper metaphor of black on white text is to my sensitive eyes really a shining bright light in my face - I always try to reverse, invert, darken to white on black text - but black borders and black bars ( android buttons grrr ) then annoying flip to white !

Many thanks this is really good.

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

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Post by alexanderby »

fabdub wrote: post #59

prefer this, and cheaper : https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dark-mode-for-safari/id13971...

Of course it will be cheaper. When you take some code from the original Dark Reader, obfuscate it, add some features, then you can put a $2 label.

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

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Post by creep »

rlv-dan wrote: post #102
apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

Yes. I find it really difficult and uncomfortable to read bright text on dark backgrounds. It honestly hurts my eyes. And afterwards my eyes have leftover streaks of bright after the text lines. Can't stand it, and I will go to lengths to turns such pages into "bright mode".

I have a thinkpad I rigged with slackware and a custom WM and whatnot, custom browser, etc. exclusively in dark colors with brighter text. But instead of white I opt for a lighter grey. If I need context highlighting I use variations of red, orange, and blue. It's the perfect setting for me since I also had that "retina burn" effect from white-on-black. On my windows machines I use a redshift app called Flux. Not great for watching videos since the colors are off, but for general browsing and working it's the only setting I can stand with light backgrounds.

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

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Post by l5870uoo9y »

o9000 wrote: post #136

I’ve also written a similar addon, although much simpler, using static css filters: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-night-re... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-nig... https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken It has 4 presets that can be configured per domain. I’ve added by hand rules to fix inverted images on some popular websites. YouTube is a pain to maintain, they keep changing…

This actually seems better (more lightweight and easier to read dark colors schemes) then the Dark Reader extension.

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

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Post by mikeleeorg »

rlv-dan wrote: post #102
apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

Yes. I find it really difficult and uncomfortable to read bright text on dark backgrounds. It honestly hurts my eyes. And afterwards my eyes have leftover streaks of bright after the text lines. Can't stand it, and I will go to lengths to turns such pages into "bright mode".

Definitely seems to be a preference thing I guess. I'm like you, I find it more uncomfortable reading bright text on dark backgrounds that I often avoid sites that have that color scheme, if there is no "bright mode" available.

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

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Post by mikeleeorg »

climb_stealth wrote: post #132
apk-d wrote: post #89

Does anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.

I find it jarring to switch from a dark window to something bright, for example from vim to the web browser. You basically said it yourself. It takes a lot of effort to make everything dark. Instead I make bright comfortable. Around 5% brightness on the external monitor and f.lux active all the time with a pleasant middle setting.

"make bright comfortable" <- Yes, this. f.lux has been great for my eyes too.
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