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Comment by halotrope | Hacker News Reader

Did you try "Dark Reader"? It solved these issues for me on Linux/Chrome and iOS. Apart from having a rather smart automatic dark mode you can also do a "black" mode which is great for Oled displays as it replaces tinted or dark gray backgrounds with true black.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

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Dark Reader is awesome.

It even has different modes of operation - static, filter, and dynamic.

Static and Filter modes are really light on CPU, but tend to break on complex JavaScript-driven sites. Dynamic mode uses a bit of CPU, but works well for most complex sites, including Google Docs, Google Maps, GMail, Google Drive and many others that I have used.

I’ve been using Dark Reader on desktop for a couple of years but had no idea they had an iOS Safari extension. I’ve been using Noir[1] on iOS, which does the trick, although perhaps not as customisable as DR.

[1](https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/noir-dark-mode-for-safari/id15...)

Dark Reader and other extensions aren't necessary. Chrome has built-in functionality (since v78) to turn every website dark and works flawlessly on 99% of sites.

[Chrome Experiments Dark Mode](https://www.howtogeek.com/446198/how-to-force-dark-mode-on-e...)

This is what I use, and it works really well on a simple site like this one.

In Chrome, go to chrome://flags and search for Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents and select "Enabled" (or a similar option, I prefer "Enabled with increased text contrast" sometimes.)

That said, it shouldn't be hard for the site to add a bit of css like:

    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    ...

and thus respect the preferences of the users without having to resort to using a specific browser, plugins (whose code may or may not have vulnerabilities), or whatever user hacks we can come up with. (@dang, what do you think?)

That enables (the same sort of) dark mode on _all_ sites, while with Dark Reader you can customize it per site.

I'm not sure "flawless"is the appropriate term. I haven't turned it off yet. But there are some sites that have become difficult to use. And other sites just look odd.

Dark Reader works so well I'd actually forgotten I had it on for HN until I saw this post.

They have extensions for Firefox, Safari and Edge too @ https:/darkreader.org

I use Chrome on Desktop and Safari on iOS. Need a magic solution that works for both.

Have been using the Noir app across Apple devices and it‘s amazing.

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