victorvscn

I don't think things are nearly as clear-cut. Personally, I like things to be near the extremes, I use OLED screens, and then I deal with it by changing my brightness. I prefer having contrast which I can easily control with brightness settings than not having contrast and then there's nothing I can do.

The ideal situation is where people can change stuff to what works for them, which is why I use the Dark Reader extension. It's the best extension in that it not only lets you easily change brightness and contrast, light/dark, but, most of all, has a crowdsourced file that carries special settings for each website over which elements should be inverted, which elements shouldn't, or whether there's an element that shouldn't be touched at all, for instance.

I have used such extensions in the past (and even welcomed stuff like Chrome's automatic dark mode) but unless they come with perfect AI—which they don't—they're not gonna match Dark Reader's crowdsourcing.

Edit: it's a subscription. No, thanks. I much prefer the crowdsourcing model, which allows the entire world to have it (and contribute to it), and not only those who can pay such prices (that are quite expensive in most of the world, including where I live).

This is 100% why I use Dark Reader. Even on my phone, right now, I'm using Kiwi. It has a "night mode" (which, by the way should not be the way to call a dark mode—I, and many others, use it all day). But I still use Dark Reader, because it has a crowdsourced WHAT TO INVERT and WHAT NOT TO INVERT which is AMAZING and fixes most situations.

I think it's about the websites you visit. If you only use "tech-y" or smaller niche websites you don't come across them. But if you visit websites like from the big news media or even niche websites that are not in English. There are filters for all major languages but there are certainly fewer skilled filter writers with time and willingness to write them in other languages.

There's also a gap of websites that are big enough to have this corporativist behavior of putting annoying... objects in their webpages, but not big enough that enough people visit to the point where it's likely that one of them will write the script.

Especially because, like, I do write some stuff for userstyles and userscripts sometimes, but I won't publish them unless I think they'll be useful for at least a small group of people, which I never seem to think will happen for websites in my mother tongue for some reason.

You're right that it's annoying. I use Edge, and I think it syncs extensions now, so I haven't really had to set it up for a while, though.

I think the best one to install and forget is Tracking Token Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tracking-token-str...), but obviously it's not going to get all of them. Like, it's not continuously updated AFAIK. If you want to input the parameters it strips, then you have to use Query Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/query-stripper/cce...).

I wish its dev would create a crowdsourced list, though.

I think you've gone overboard and you're wrong about so much, but I agree that it should be easier to use your own themes. I mean, I hope you've heard of Stylish, Dark Reader and Tampermonkey. They help tremendously. But it's not the same as having shit done right.

Only on XHTML, actually.

Whatever the hell happened to XHTML? Stop being lazy.

Not tangential. It's pretty important, because although they're obviously symbolic, there have been huge changes to how websites work. Web 2.0 had a lot of user customization, for example. Web 3.0 has much less, though dark modes became prevalent.

By the way, you're completely right about password managers. E2E + 2FA and you're done. I wonder what their solution for "single point of failure" is, because there isn't a single one that's not flawed.

You know, there's an article about 2022 UI design trends on Medium and web 1.0 aesthetics coming back is one of them.

https://medium.com/codeart-mk/ux-ui-trends-2022-31023ae36fa

You should know there are both Chrome extensions and Tampermonkey scripts for that.

>I certainly understand how scandalous this looks to crowds like Hacker News.

I don't. I'm with the Microsoft employee who was pissed at how people think it's edgy to diss on Microsoft. What were the chances that Microsoft was openly doing that? Some dude who has now deleted his post said Microsoft was trying to "create a monopoly of web IDEs". These are clearly people who barely have a passing knowledge of how Microsoft works these days.

People think critical thinking means complaining endlessly. It doesn't. You can't think critically if you don't think clearly. And you can't think clearly if you're only looking for a reason to lift the pitchforks.

I feel like the only people with an attitude against Microsoft these days are teenagers trying to look edgy and critical thinking or pretending they are insiders.

I don't work for Microsoft.

I'm not even an engineer but I have some HR training as a Psychologist and this resonates with me.