this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 11 months ago (4 children)

or... just use darkreader :D

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Seconding. Can't imagine not using darkreader in this day and age.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Yup yup. Darkreader has improved my entire internet experience, which is a huge accomplishment. Works flawlessly 99% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Dark reader is great. It can also be used to prevent fingerprinting based on your preference, as most are configured to light mode by default.

However it often makes the site nearly or completely unusable, as it isn't (and can't) always be 100% correct. Having dark mode configured by the site is often much more useful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

somehow, the "dark reader clone" that's in samsung browser it's so much accurate. Main disadvantage is that you have to use samsung browser (ugh)...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

DR itself is clearly fingerprintable, more so than a dark preference.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

or... just lower your monitor brightness so you don't feel like you need dark mode, which is actually worse in every way than just using the correct monitor brightness.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago

With everybody using black pixels, they're becoming more expensive as they rarefy worldwide. This kind of thing was to be expected, really.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I've seen this in many places. I don't remember them because I stop caring when I notice the cut of their jib.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dextero is pretty trash in general so I'm not surprised in the slightest. So much bot content on there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not a regular visitor, so can't say anything about there content.There was a discussion in the piracy community about the article, so went there to read it: https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/godzilla-minus-one-most-pirated-movie-2696285/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry I didn't mean any negatively towards you there. I just remember what the site was like before it hit my blocklist. It was before chatgpt got big but everything I read on there was scraped info from other sites and full of errors

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry I didn't mean any negatively towards you there.

I took your previous comment to be a critic of Dexerto.Not towards me. No apology needed.

Thanks for warning me about their quality, its now on my blocklist too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

No prob..I avoid RockPaperShotgun, too, because 90% of their articles are thinly-veiled ads

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Arstechnica does this crap too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ars dark mode switching is infuriating, not an asshole design choice like Dexerto here

Be me,

  • Click on an article link in rss feed.Open in browser(in dark mode)

  • Ars technica doesn't change its theme.

  • Open the menu to switch theme, click on dark mode.

  • Goes to the homepage in dark mode.

  • Go back to rss reader click that link again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's a lot. I will stick to Dark Reader

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of websites do this the other way around, too. It's very annoying.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What, you have to enable dark mode to sign up?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

No lol just you need to sign up to enable light mode

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Firefox with the extension "Dark Reader" is great. There are some websites I have to disable it, but it's rare. I also recommend uBlock Origin.

Edit: I see someone already recommended dark reader. But it really is a must have extension. It knows if your system theme is set to light or dark and matches it automatically.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

CSS is so premium lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

same with news.google.com

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

they won’t even turn off the ads if you pay them. what a joke

edit: oops i just saw that these are the “free benefits”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

there was a android apk site that did that