dark mode bliss

I’m a big fan of dark mode on my device screens at night. It’s easier on the eyes and generally contributes to a more chilled out evening vibe. I set all my devices to change automatically from light to dark at sunset and this works great most of the time.

One place where it sometimes breaks is on websites that haven’t implemented a built-in feature to change to dark mode based on the system settings. This website is an example. I’m using a stock WordPress theme and it’s light mode all day, all night, regardless of the system settings on the device viewing the site.

Enter Dark Reader. I’m late to the party here, but just now trying this gem of a browser extension. Basically it turns any site into one with a lovely dark mode. You can add sites that already have dark mode to a list and it will ignore those, rather than trying to stack two dark modes together. It’s open source and has a really simple privacy policy that starts with “Dark Reader had never collected and will never collect any personal data, browsing history etc.”

So in the meantime until the whole internet has consistent dark mode implementation, check out Dark Reader if you’re a dark mode fan like myself.