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1. badger+F3[view] [source] 2025-11-23 17:07:44
>>4dm1r4+(OP)
True. Use dark mode or don’t, but stop going on about it.
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2. Camper+T3[view] [source] 2025-11-23 17:08:48
>>badger+F3
You often don't have a choice. Not without being forced to tinker around with your browser in ways that aren't readily accessible to many/most users.

What us dark-mode haters are really asking for is a simple option to click.

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3. moooo9+x6[view] [source] 2025-11-23 17:23:22
>>Camper+T3
Is it though? Most apps I am using are following the OS/browser preferences or are light mode as a default. One of the more notable exceptions is Discord, but that is largely explained away by the fact that the gaming focused audience often demands dark modes.

Also, the dark mode setting in mist browsers is one search entry away. I really don't see the problem here

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4. Camper+T6[view] [source] 2025-11-23 17:25:29
>>moooo9+x6
Well, I guess that's fine for the "gaming-focused audience," then.

For the benefit of the rest of us, explain how to turn off "dark mode" when viewing specific websites that are hardwired to use it, while running Safari on iOS, or in Firefox on desktop, without installing various extensions that may not be available to users at work, or changing the way the whole OS appears.

Edit due to rate-limiting: The Firefox theme has absolutely nothing to do with how a web page is rendered. Select the light theme and go to Hackaday, or a logged-out Mastodon page, and you will find that it looks exactly the same.

Same with the peanut gallery that always pops up with helpful advice like "Just change your OS theme." Even if that would help, which it wouldn't, I'm not going to change the global OS appearance to accommodate a few asshat web designers.

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