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Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
- elektor 8y agoThis app is a godsend for people with eye floaters.
- abcdcba 8y agoI was about to post this. My office has way too much fluorescent light so I can see all my floaters. This extension keeps me sane.
- nathanaldensr 8y agoOn Firefox, I love the Owl - Dark Background app. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/owl https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/owl
- distantsounds 8y agoooh, this one is way less intensive on resources.
- bootlooped 8y agoI'll have to try that. I never had performance issues with Dark Reader on Chrome, but I find it to be slow on Firefox.
- godelmachine 8y agoI find it slowing my Chrome too. Is there an app that we let me benchmark my browser performance with Dark reader app and without dark reader app?
- alexanderby 8y agoThen you should try switching to Filter or Static mode.
- nathanaldensr 8y agoIt isn't the fastest, it's true. I'm not sure if this is a browser/CSS rendering limitation or a Firefox issue, so I've just dealt with it. It's best to not use Owl on video streams.
- ekzy 8y agoIt seems free on Chrome and Firefox but £5 for Safari... :( Why?
- dotdi 8y agoOne reason might be that you need to shell out $99 every year to be allowed to publish official Safari extensions. It is, theoretically, possible to distribute without the App Store, but users need to activate Developer mode and do quite a few manual steps. It's not a click (or drag and drop) like FF and Chromium Based browsers.
- alexanderby 8y agoThe quick answer is: it makes it possible to work on project full-time. Only 1 of 2000 makes a donation https://darkreader.org/blog/500k-users/ https://darkreader.org/blog/500k-users/
- ekzy 8y agoI agree about selling the product. My question was about Safari, and why only on Safari users have to pay. Isn't it a bit like having your website say "works better in Chrome"? Don't get me wrong, I am still grateful that the extension is available on Safari, but it just seems a bit unfair
- Timpy 8y agoMy thought process: Apple is the only place I have to pay to develop. Apple is a luxury product. Apple users can pay luxury prices for my time.
- alexanderby 8y agoI'm trying different approaches. The crowdfunding was not very successful, so I decided to try making the app paid for Safari, since the platform is technically different and users count is low. App Store makes its best in selling the apps. At the same time Chrome Web Store is not suitable for paid apps, today it looks like a big dump: it is filled with outdated and poor made extensions. Raking system makes good apps hardly discoverable. Also paid Chrome extensions work only in 36 countries. Dark Reader owes its popularity to Hacker Vision extension that became paid some day. Maybe that's the reason why some developers prefer monetizing their extensions by selling users browsing history.
- eternalny1 8y agoDark Background and Light Text is great also ... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou... Fully customizable so you can don't have to go full black/white, you can copy and dark theme you like and use that as a default.
- godelmachine 8y agoCan we also choose which web pages not to add dark theme?
- cowb0yl0gic 8y agoYes, it has per-site configuration from the toolbar; also, a couple of different modes to choose from if one doesn't work quite so well for a given site (invert, CSS, simple CSS). I'm pretty happy with this extension (I switched away from Dark Reader). Also, open source: https://github.com/m-khvoinitsky/dark-background-light-text-extension https://github.com/m-khvoinitsky/dark-background-light-text-...
- blairbeckwith 8y agoI've never bought anything so fast. $7 for the safari extension sounds like a lot, but for how much time I spend on the web and how glaringly white most pages are when OS X has done a good job with Dark Mode, it's well worth the price.
- dotdi 8y agoI always found managing all my Stylus/Stylish styles too cumbersome and then I found this a while ago. Instantly donated. It's amazing. The only gripe I have is that it is a biiit heavy on the resources.
- defanor 8y agoWhile it is nice, there are more lightweight and snappy ways to achieve a dark background (or desirable styles in general) -- such as setting a global CSS, using built-in color overriding (at least in FF it's available, along with font overriding), using web browsers that don't apply CSS. Some people even use system-wide color inversion. Each method has its pros and cons though. Stylus is one of the handy FF extensions, which allows to switch between CSS themes quickly/easily.
- alexanderby 8y agoDark Reader also offers static CSS support https://darkreader.org/blog/stylish/ https://darkreader.org/blog/stylish/ Global CSS will work well on text websites. For many others it will break up the coloring and make page parts hardly distinguishable.
- kristofferR 8y agoAny plans to implement proper UserStyles.org support where themes can auto-update like with Stylus? Some of the most popular style sheets update quite frequently.
- alexanderby 8y agoStylus already does it well, so I think you could use Stylus for such websites. UserStyles.org is still owned by SimilarWeb, so I would stay away from it. What is planned is to add some static themes for popular websites.
- dmos62 8y agoI tried this a few months back, I liked the visual effect and the configuration flexibility, but it ate at my CPU waaay too much. Anybody else have this? Was meaning to look for a lightweight alternative. Maybe I'll try this extension again to see if it's still a resource hog. Note: I'm on Firefox.
- mcondit 8y agounfortunately still a bit resource intensive, agreed that I like the extension if I ignored that bit
- aptidude187 8y agoI’m using Night Reader for Safari right now, it allows using hotkeys for toggling between dark and light. Didn’t notice any hit on the performance.
- azag0 8y agoWith Safari on macOS, the OS reports a negligible energy impact for the extension.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoJust added the extension to give it a whirl. My CPU usage is 3% to 4%, memory is ~37%, on an i7 wih 16 GB RAM (and about 100 tabs open in Firefox). I like it. I was looking for something like that for a while. Nighttime browsing on LED monitors seriously hurts my eyes, even with night light settings on. This looks like it'll do the job. I'll know tonight :)
- dmos62 8y agoWish you luck. The resource usage spikes I was experiencing were happening sporadically and some sites were more prone to it than others. I've just installed it again, we'll see how it goes.
- bootlooped 8y agoI have used it a lot on both Firefox and Chrome. It's much slower on Firefox.
- 9712263 8y agoGreat job. Install it and instantly love it.
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- canacrypto 8y agoI've been using this for a few weeks and overall I'm happy with it. I do find that some complex web apps like gmaps or gmail slow down with this extension enabled. Particularly so in Firefox.
- Fedoranimus 8y agoGmail is pretty slow in Firefox no matter what.
- sqren 8y agoI'm a big fan of dark mode, particularly because I was of the impression that it was easier on the eyes. Turns our, it's not so black and white... In a study from the 1980s: > However, most studies have shown that dark characters on a light background are superior to light characters on a dark background (when the refresh rate is fairly high). For example, Bauer and Cavonius (1980) found that participants were 26% more accurate in reading text when they read it with dark characters on a light background. Reference: Bauer, D., & Cavonius, C., R. (1980) So perhaps dark mode actually puts more strain on the eyes? At least when the user is not in a dark room. Very interested to hear about similar research done in this area. Further reading here: https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/53268/22606 https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/53268/22606
- pieterhg 8y agoThis is 1980 in a time before OLED screens
- kristofferR 8y agoBarely any computers have OLED screens.
- mtgx 8y agoAnecdotally, I very much doubt dark mode puts more strain on the eyes at night time. During the day, I could see the "light mode" being preferable. But at night the brightness of devices seems quite damaging to eyesight and sleep.
- kakarot 8y agoIf you have dim lighting, you can cause eye strain, and in extreme cases actual eye damage, by having small points of bright light in your vision like a phone or computer monitor because your pupils will be more relaxed. Even now with the benefits of warmer color temperatures becoming mainstream knowledge, most people still use blindingly bright screens with high color temperatures, which causes more eye strain. Also when you're staring at a monitor for 8-12 hours a day, it becomes less about readability and more about comfort. That's why most programmers prefer dark themes.
- distantsounds 8y agousing it right now, have been for a while :) sadly certain sites with lots of dynamic content or tabular data (zendesk comes to mind) chokes the browser, i have to turn off the dynamic mode which imho is the best feature of the plugin.
- jamescampbell 8y agoThis is a beautifully done extension. Using it both in Safari and in Firefox Nightly right now.
- fencepost 8y agoThis looks to have a more polished GUI than Dark Background and Light Text (on Firefox, particularly on mobile), but I'm not sure it offers the same flexibility of multiple ways to achieve color changes. I've run into a few sites where one method didn't work well but another did and having all that built in is handy.
- UI_at_80x24 8y agoI'm almost blind (legally), and this is the first extension I found that PERFECTLY fixes the contrast so I don't need 20-point font zoom to be able to read it. I have tried dozens of FF extensions to adjust contrast, dark theme, etc... none have worked this well. I wonder if the creator is a fan of https://contrastrebellion.com/ https://contrastrebellion.com/ It Just Works! I'm buying this tonight. Thank-you very much.
- anewguy9900 8y agoi made a similar extension some years ago -- it tries to be fast and injects very little code. i'm curious to know how the performance compares: https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight
- alexanderby 8y agoYour code is based on CSS filters. Dark Reader provides this mode too, but also allows users to fix and share wrongly inverted parts https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/blob/master/src/config/inversion-fixes.config https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/blob/master/src/con... Dynamic mode is slower at start, but has no impact on performance after all the stylesheets were analyzed.
- anewguy9900 8y agonightlight is "dynamic" by using a simple heuristic after pageload to deinvert if necessary. but the crowdsourced filter is a great idea! might borrow it :) does your extension run on android? there are two motivations for nightlight aside from its obvious purpose: 1) be fast on android 2) keep source code simple as possible so everything the extension does is obvious. when i wrote nightlight it was difficult to evaluate the safety of the other extensions at the time, something important to me for a plugin which has full access to all browsing
- alexanderby 8y agoYes, it works in Firefox for Android and in Yandex browser. The only issue with Firefox is white user interface and white default color.
- mcjiggerlog 8y agoThe results are really impressive, but any large page is very noticeably slower to load.
- bootlooped 8y agoWhat browser are you using? I've been using this extension for a couple years and I notice that it is much slower on Firefox compared to Chrome.
- mcjiggerlog 8y agoFirefox on macOS Mojave
- chicob 8y agoI often use the reader mode in Firefox. Although it is not the same as a dark mode for a whole webpage, it is pretty good at removing clutter and making a web text easier to read. With the added bonus that there are no permissions involved (although I suspect the latter are absolutely necessary for the addon to work, without sharing data to 3rd parties). It is even possible to save a bookmark in Firefox with reader mode already enabled, by adding about:reader?url= before the url.
- izietto 8y agoThere is a nice extension, Automatic Reader View [0], which automatically enables Firefox reader view, if available for the visited page. I even used it in blacklist mode for a while, which wasn't bad but after some time I ended up using it in whitelist mode, because it was too extreme for me. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-reader-view/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea...
- slim 8y agoYou can set dark mode in reader view (firefox mobile)
- chicob 8y agoIn desktop Firefox there is a dark background option, which is my favorite, along with serif font. I used to postpone my reading list until reading mode came about, because the white screen is just too much sometimes.
- psychometry 8y agoHow can I trust that this extension, which has access to every page I visit, doesn't steal my data? How can I trust that if someone else takes over the project and releases an update, that my data is still secure? Looks great, but I'm just so skeptical of browser extensions now.
- modzu 8y agothe need for trust applies to any software you install. this is usually just based on reputation when you can't verify the quality and integrity of the source itself (as is often the case) that said, i had the same concerns so i wrote my own :) the source code is intentionally very short and simple, so it should be extremely clear what it is doing: https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight https://github.com/conceptualspace/nightlight
- spurgu 8y agoInstall the extension (in a throwaway Chrome profile), review the code, then repackage it (small modifications needed to package.json) and install it in developer mode. And/or put it up as a repo if you wish (and license allows it).
- alexanderby 8y agoFirefox add-ons pass full source code review before the submission after the Stylish incident. Safari extensions also pass manual review, Apple asks developer to send an ID card photo. Not sure about Chrome, you have to simply trust me, the code is not obfuscated and you can always locate the files and see what the extension does in your browser. Google recently announced some security changes https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/trustworthy-chrome-extensions-by-default.html https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/trustworthy-chrome-extensi...
- anewguy9900 8y agoto be less disingenuous, the review process seems to be limited to looking for specific known attack vectors, rather than a full review or evaluation of the sourcecode (which would be impractical). that said, yes, someone at mozilla does at least eyeball it
- O2F2 8y agoSince there's quite a few of these dark mode extensions with very variable features and compatibility/robustness, I feel like there's space for a comparison chart type thing. With side by side screenshots of how they handle certain websites and how they influence performance (that might be tricky). If someone want's to steal that idea go ahead, otherwise I might whip something up somewhere over the next weeks.
- alexanderby 8y agoDark Reader provides all 3 possible modes: - Static: simple and fast. - Filter: simple, but uses GPU very much and usually inverts already dark parts. - Dynamic: complex, but tries to achieve the best visual results. There are some known issues and the work on it is in progress. Here are some more details https://darkreader.org/help/en/#theme-generation-modes https://darkreader.org/help/en/#theme-generation-modes
- nikivi 8y agoReally awesome extension. I am just waiting for the developer to fix Dark Reader breaking sVim link hinting on Safari. It makes link hints unreadable and thus I can't use the extension yet although I really wish I could. A hotkey to turn on/off the dark mode is also coming soon and with that the extension will be perfect.
- godelmachine 8y agoWeb pages are slow to load after installing this extension.
- iraldir 8y agoBeen using using it for a couple month (on chrome), very happy with it. The only thing I wish would be for the the "theme preference" (sepia, contrast etc.) to be on a website per website basis. I don't have the same needs on say HackerNews and Google Maps
- alexanderby 8y agoYou can already use per-site settings https://darkreader.org/blog/custom-site-settings/ https://darkreader.org/blog/custom-site-settings/
- fabdub 8y agoprefer this, and cheaper : https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dark-mode-for-safari/id1397180934?l=fr&mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dark-mode-for-safari/id13971...
- gchq-7703 8y agoDark Reader is free, this does not seem cheaper.
- alexanderby 8y agoOf course it will be cheaper. When you take some code from the original Dark Reader, obfuscate it, add some features, then you can put a $2 label.
- holtalanm 8y agoworks great on opera as well.
- alexanderby 8y agoThe newest Opera has some changes, to make the extension work on Google Search you have to open Extensions page and click "Allow access to search page results".
- hambos22 8y agoI use it daily in conjunction with f.lux and its been an essential combination for a smooth transition to late-night working/surfing/reading. Specifically, after trying similar extensions, this one is the best. Its css rules fit perfectly for most of the websites which I visit.
- ud0 8y agoDoesn't work on Chrome Canary.
- alexanderby 8y agoJust checked, it works on Canary too.
- wozmirek 8y agoSweet, thanks! Just got it and checking it out :)
- nine_k 8y agoStylus + some of the general dark themes solves it for me. I don't see why a separate extension is needed.
- annadane 8y agoI'm always so leery of "random extension x". But if it's featured it can't be too bad in terms of trust, right...?
- balibebas 8y agoWith dark sites coming back en vogue with and even entire blogging platforms like After Dark[0] now available is the 90's all over again. Hopefully these new sites eschew the mistakes we've made harvesting data in the past. [0] https://after-dark.habd.as https://after-dark.habd.as
- mistersquid 8y agoI purchased and like the Dark Reader Safari extension (despite already having the paid Dark Mode extension). Thank you and kudos. My only question is with the promotion of a paid Safari extension whether the developer is concerned about a possible trademark infringement suit.
- alexanderby 8y agoI'm an author of both Dark Reader and Dark Reader for Safari.
- j45 8y agoThis extension so far is neat to try with the day to day sites I visit. The security settings do seem to be concerning, but I'm not sure if it's due to how much Firefox, Safari and Chrome have locked down their worlds. Edit: One unintended side effect is copying and pasting text into an email (like an address from a google search) copies the text with a black background. I could do a plaintext copy, but it would be nice if text was copied in the original formatting if possible.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoAn extension that's become as important to me as uBO. Discovered this only a couple of months ago thanks to a random comment from someone here on HN. I'd previously been using another extension that did the same thing, but poorly. HN now looks like an old school amber monitor, and its default rules get 9 out of 10 sites spot on, with perfect contrast. Unlike other similar addons seems able to leave the right highlight and banner colours alone. If some rare site doesn't work well with the defaults you can tune individually or even add custom css for that site only. The few times I browse without it my middle-aged eyes are instantly resenting the excessive whiteness. So I have to thank you, a lot, for your attention to detail with this. I hope you receive lots and lots of donations. :) The only negative I find is it's sometimes very greedy with CPU, especially if you're switching between a few tabs a lot.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI use this extension on both Firefox and Chrome. I sometimes disable it on some sites just because I'm too used to their original design like Google, but it works nicely on a number of sites. We needed something to override the color scheme of an internal instance of Confluence / BitBucket and I found this plugin and it worked out well, at least 2 other team members use it after I suggested it.
- burtonator 8y agoYou guys might like the app I've been working on - Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ https://getpolarized.io/ It's a document repository for caching HTML content offline, managing PDFs, annotating and creating flashcards on the documents you're managing. We looked at adding dark mode but it didn't work exactly like I would have hoped so I'm going to take a look at this extension and see if they used any tricks I didn't think of.
- apk-d 8y agoDoes anyone actually prefer reading text on a bright background? If so, what are your reasons? For me, the choice is obvious to the point that I'm often annoyed at the lengths I need to go to in order to browse the web comfortably. I feel like we should have moved to the sane default of dark-themed UI ages ago.
- foobarbecue 8y agoI prefer a dark theme, but find black on white much better outdoors or in an overlit area. This is on a work laptop with a glossy screen (I'd prefer matte).
- jplayer01 8y agoMatte screen here, white on black is unreadable outdoors.
- devereaux 8y agoI do! Because if the background is uniformly bright (white/whitish) I can use the accessibility options to invert the display and make everything dark :-) I hate Windows 10 full black taskbar (must be #000000), because it breaks this. And even W10 lets you pick some colors in a theme, you can't go full white (#ffffff).
- lkirk 8y agoIt really depends on how light it is outside. I like light backgrounds when it's light outside, but dark ones at night.
- freakz 8y agoA question for anyone that knows. With this extension I like to keep everything in light mode with Brightness, Contrast and Sepia off, and Greyscale to 100%. While I like dark mode on macOS all the time I don't really like the web content on dark mode, but with this greyscale setup I feel my eyes relax while keeping images in color in the content. Long term is this setup good or bad for the eyes?
- nqzero 8y agoi'm nearly incapable of reading light-text-on-dark-background (i get visual auras and nausea). can this extension be used selectively to invert sites that are naturally dark ? from the github: > This extension inverts brightness of web pages i guess a related question is can it be activated for individual pages (as opposed to for-all-pages)
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoYou can whitelist or blacklist. There's a toggle to make it invert listed sites only, or don't invert the sites on the list. So you should be able to use it that way round.
- wwweston 8y ago1994: trust the browser for presentation 1997: geez the browser makes some dull or terrible decisions about presentation and we want to control our site's presentation 2005: OK but semantic web and CSS tho' 2013: JavaScript all the things! 2015: whoever thought the semantic web was a decent idea, the browser is THE VM, CSS is teh sux0rs, when can I just treat it like a compile target like every other kind of development 2018: oh hai what if we invented some way to let users control how they see the content of a website
- drKarl 8y agoThere's the Stylish extension since 2005
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoNow with added spyware. :(
- ganzuul 8y agoStylus seems OK.
- drKarl 8y agoOuch!! Didn't know that!!! I used Stylish years ago, good thing I'm not using it now!!!
- wwweston 8y agoThis is one of the reasons that I'm a bit wary of using extensions for handling these kinds of needs. It might be different if there were a permissions model that didn't seem to require "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" for most useful extensions. Better user stylesheet support in the browser seems safer.
- drKarl 8y agoAlso GreaseMonkey for user customized javascript
- vages 8y agoMonthly sponsor of this for $2.
- o9000 8y agoI’ve also written a similar addon, although much simpler, using static css filters: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-night-reader/hmafjphdklmdjfcnljjeonfpgafanjjc?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode-night-re... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-night-reader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-mode-nig... https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken It has 4 presets that can be configured per domain. I’ve added by hand rules to fix inverted images on some popular websites. YouTube is a pain to maintain, they keep changing their css every couple of months. The code is simple enough to review even for someone not familiar with JS. And you can download it and load it as a local extension if you’re worried about the permission. I’ve only tested it under Linux, I don’t use anything else. But some users tell me it works under Windows too.
- o9000 8y agoHere are the filters: https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken/blob/master/chrome/style.css https://gitlab.com/o9000/darken/blob/master/chrome/style.css
- l5870uoo9y 8y agoThis actually seems better (more lightweight and easier to read dark colors schemes) then the Dark Reader extension.
- o9000 8y agoThanks. I use it myself so I tried hard to make it work well.
- kristofferR 8y agoHow long will it likely be until the automatic dark mode toggling is available in Chrome/Firefox? I'm not a fan of Safari. Does it require Chrome and Firefox to implement prefers-color-scheme first?
- alexanderby 8y agoUnfortunately Chrome and Firefox API has no this feature yet. Time Settings (ability to set active hours) were implemented recently and soon will be published.
- deepnet 8y agoMy late night tired eyes, thank you - now I can browse without waking my partner :) The white sheet of paper metaphor of black on white text is to my sensitive eyes really a shining bright light in my face - I always try to reverse, invert, darken to white on black text - but black borders and black bars ( android buttons grrr ) then annoying flip to white ! Many thanks this is really good.
- vemkiran 8y agoOn firefox, when you're turning off dark mode, you have to do it individually for each open tab. That is painful. It'll be good if that toggle is global.
- BatFastard 8y agoBless you! I am sure this will mess up some sites, but for the VAST majority of them this is awesome!
- ionwake 8y agoDo the URLS you visit get uploaded in any way to the author of this extension? I saw you have to give it read permissions.
- alexanderby 8y agoNo. You can locate the files of the extension and ensure that it doesn't make anything severe, the code is not obfuscated.
- zapzupnz 8y agoI'd love to have the dark theming off by default, and enable it on a per-site basis. I prefer black-on-white, but there are some sites that benefit from being the other way around. Currently, I have to basically disable theming for every website except the ones I want darkened, which is a bit inefficient, or turn the extension off completely. Also, since Safari users have to pay for the app, I wonder if it's possible to add some Safari-specific features. I'd really love iCloud sync to keep my custom site theme settings across my Macs. I'm not actually sure to what extent this is possible with apps that provide extensions to Safari, but some minor value-add like that could be nice.
- IronCoderXYZ 8y agoI have used this extension for the past few months, and I couldn't be more pleased, it takes a huge strain away from my eyes. Highly recommend! And thanks to the author (cheers)
- lenocinor 8y agoBeen using this for months (in Chrome) and mostly it's great. My few gripes are: -- Google Sheets will put text in light grey instead of black -- The CPU usage shoots up a bit now and then -- Sometimes I see a website flicker in white for a moment first
- sdfin 8y agoI like it, but in permissions it says: "This add-on can: Access your data for all websites" This doesn't sound good, I wouldn't like to allow an extension to access my data in bank websites.
- gtsteve 8y agoI've developed a few Chrome extensions myself - it needs that to work. The only way to make it work is to injecting a script into your current webpage, which changes the appearance. Unfortunately there is no way to also disable the network connections of that script so it could hypothetically contact another website and leak your data - note it cannot leak cookies if they are HTTP only, but this depends on your sensitive website's web developer being competent. You must also trust the dependencies of the application as well - refreshingly there is only one called malevic [0], which itself has no dependencies. My impression is that the author of this extension is genuinely just trying to make something good for the benefit of the community but it's not as though Chrome extensions haven't been purchased before. Also we must trust that the published extension is the same as the extension in the Github repository, I don't know of a way to verify this. The only way to probably be safe is to audit the source code yourself and install it in development mode. Or just use a different profile for truly sensitive stuff vs just casual browsing. [0] https://github.com/alexanderby/malevic https://github.com/alexanderby/malevic
- Arubis 8y agoThis is really neat! Have left it going all day and it’s quite an improvement. That said, what it’s really done for me is remind me of how much I miss Nocturne: https://github.com/strider72/blacktree-nocturne https://github.com/strider72/blacktree-nocturne (but originally from Blacktree, the original publisher of Quicksilver). Even the Github version linked there is long abandoned, so hard to try on for yourself—but the monochrome inverted night mode was far and away the best late night coding environment I’ve tested my eyes on.
- farmerbb 8y agoI seriously just started using this extension a few days ago, after getting tired of toggling my Chromebook's invert colors setting on and off several times a night. Thanks for building a great extension! I plan on keeping this installed for a long time :)