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I so wanted to read the page but after 10 seconds of the high contrast white text on pure solid black background I started developing a headache.

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Yes, very weird, I got kind of dizzy.

Because I have some light sensitivity issues, I use browser extensions including Dark Reader and Midnight Lizard to enforce my own 'dark mode' across the web.

You can also use extensions like that to set the contrast to a more comfortable level on websites that are already dark.

I highly recommend this if you have light sensitivity issues like me.

Also note that when the contrast on a page is higher, you can generally get away with lower brightness. This is pretty convenient on phones, and probably more necessary as well since on a phone you're more likely to have an OLED screen that really surfaces extreme contrast like white on black.

There are some great web extensions for a lot of things. I don't use any of them because most of them require permissions to read data across all sites, which makes sense for them to work; but I'm not using any of them.

Fair enough. I only use long-lived, open-source browser extensions for that kind of global restyling. But of course there's still a risk that they could be compromised somehow.

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