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It's wild to me that they don't implement dark mode and `prefers-color-scheme` for their sign in page, and I'm assuming this will still be the case. Gotta love visiting youtube.com which does respect this preference, then get blasted with light once you click Sign In.

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For a page that has a billion users and is a prime spoofing target, they probably have real data showing that any visual adaptation results in substantial user confusion.

If any visual adaptation results in substantial user confusion, then why roll out this update which they say is "strictly a change in visual appearance"? If they're going to cause confusion, at least incorporate some additional functionality at the same time.

> If they're going to cause confusion, at least incorporate some additional functionality at the same time.

That seems like the worst time to add new functionality.

When a service is being redesigned, I hope improvements to the functionality is what's leading those changes. Causing confusion without any benefits beyond a "more modern look" isn't the best reasoning for a redesign.

Dark mode is still pretty hit or miss across the web and across apps, and I'm not sure I ever see that changing.

That was my fear when Apple rolled it out at the OS level -- that it would only ever be half useful because it just wouldn't become universally adopted.

Contrast that with, for example, 2x/3x retina resolution across apps and the web which is now totally standard. I almost never see icons or UX elements with blocky pixels anymore, except on extremely old forum software.

By this point I almost wish Apple would forcibly smart-invert everything that looks like light mode into dark mode at the OS level. Like trying to read Google News at night is a nightmare because half the articles are dark but half are light.

Dark Reader. Seriously.

Links to the extension [0][1]. I can second the recommendation! This extension is one of the best things about Firefox on Android.

[0] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

[1] Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...

Yeah, I recently got a new computer and suddenly found the web unusable. I'd actually forgotten that I'd installed that extension, I just thought almost every website supported dark mode now.

No dark mode on GMail is… the worst.

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