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There are browser extensions and userscripts to do this.

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Like https://darkreader.org/ that costs?

Or tampermonkey and 2 minutes of writing CSS overrides. What, you people are hackers, aren't you?

So writing CSS overrides for every site I consume sounds healthy and fair to you?

I don't think they meant that it would be needed to make new overrides for every site typically. Dark Reader extension works fine with 99% of sites out of the box and is free.

You're right. Someone should do it for you, for free. /s

No, just the ones you really care about.

Caring about the background color of a website is unhealthy and unfair. You have the client-side tools to fix it, so do it.

It's easier than you'd think.

In many cases, you can probably get by with your browser's default Reader Mode.

I'll use uBlock Origin's element zapper on a whole heck of a lot of sites, and you can write default rules for common annoyances as well.

If you get fancy, you can write generalised styles which address specific annoyances, and toggle those on or off on specific websites.

Otherwise, I'd found I'd written a thousand or so custom styles over a couple of years at one point. Most were quite elementary (usually font tweaks or removing headers / social link-litter). A few ... somewhat less elementary. Taught myself a lot about CSS in the process.

...which only works in some browsers.

Solution: use a browser that respect client-side overrides. You should be doing this anyways, if you want a usable adblock browsing experience. People that use Safari or flip-phone browsers don't reserve the right to complain about the web being unusable.

To quote Thom Yorke, "You do it to yourself, you do; and that's why it really hurts"

Dark Reader is free and open source software, always has been. That price on the main page is just for a voluntary donation if you so desire.

The free download buttons are in the middle of the page. There are also multiple links to the source code at the bottom.

Not true. You must install from the AppStore and it charges you.

You seem to be referring to the ios/mac app store thing specifically, which is NOT what 99% of people use. That is a separate whole browser with the extension pre-installed and completely unnecessary.

Just use the links in the middle of the page and it will install it for free like every other normal browser extension people use all the time.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

The firefox extension alone has 1 million installs just from this page, we all installed it for free and have been using it for years. I think asserting that there are only paid options is disingenuous to say the least.

iOS embedded safari doesn’t run them unfortunately.

I mainly read HN from an RSS reader, whose web view always shows light mode.

How about in Safari?

https://icsusa.com/hndarkmode.html

Thanks! Appreciate it

Doesn’t work in web views unfortunately.

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