Tip: Get Dark Mode on Thurrott.com (and Elsewhere)

A new web browser extension will allow you to view Thurrott.com—and most of the web—in dark mode. It works with all popular browsers

It’s called Dark Reader, and you can find it in the Chrome Web Store (Chrome/new Edge), the Firefox Add-Ons website, and the macOS App Store (Safari).

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I’ve been using it in Chrome and the new Edge, and it works great: You can configure numerous filter-like features for things like darkness, brightness, contrast, sepia, and grayscale globally or on a site-by-site basis. And you can, of course, toggle it on/off for individual sites as well.

I’ve run into a few sites that override this behavior. But overall, Dark Reader is a winner. And something I recommend strongly to anyone who’s embraced dark mode in their desktop OS and wants to see it in the sites they visit as well.

Thanks to Eric Barch for the tip. Which came via Twitter, proving that not every interaction there has to be a soul-killing personal attack. Thanks!

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  • Ben Lee

    22 September, 2019 - 8:49 am

    <p>Bee nusing this for years and it is wonderful. Makes so much difference when reading at night. eBay and TP-Link router configuration pages are the few places I've found it to be buggy.</p>

  • navarac

    22 September, 2019 - 9:33 am

    <p>Warning – personal opinion!!!!</p><p> That's better. Most site's text in light mode tends to look grey to me, rather than sharp black. I find Dark Mode far better. I'm sure my eyes are grateful.</p>

  • Daekar

    22 September, 2019 - 10:27 am

    <p>Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. It works on my company's intranet sites including SharePoint, and rarely gets in the way. When it does, it's easy to set per-site exceptions, so it never happens more then once. I'd echo Paul's recommendation. </p>

  • spacein_vader

    Premium Member
    22 September, 2019 - 11:51 am

    <p>It's not new, first release was 2014. It is however very good.</p>

  • dontbeevil

    22 September, 2019 - 12:57 pm

    <p>Personal attack… Lol this is getting ridiculous </p><p><br></p><p>So be careful everybody that disagree with thurrots, providing facts in a civil manner… Will be blocked because of "personal attacks" </p><p><br></p><p>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks</p><p><br></p><p>This part is interesting</p><p><br></p><p>"Accusations about personal behavior that lack evidence. Serious accusations require serious evidence. Evidence often takes the form of diffs and links presented on the wiki." </p><p><br></p><p>Say uwp is dead without serious evidence should be considered a personal attacck</p>

    • ragingthunder

      23 September, 2019 - 1:13 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#469465">In reply to dontbeevil:</a></em></blockquote><p>Why are you banging this bush for so long? UWP is the default framework to develop apps for Windows 10. Don't like it? There are 1000 other options. </p><p><br></p><p>Also, there are plenty of other places on the Internet to be callous and argumentative. This site isn't one of them. People come here for Thurrott's personal views as much as they come for other MS developments. </p><p><br></p>

      • dontbeevil

        23 September, 2019 - 4:10 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#469626">In reply to ragingthunder:</a></em></blockquote><p>"People come here for Thurrott's personal views as much as they come for other MS developments."</p><p><br></p><p>the problem is that it's not stated anywhere that's a personal view, but it's advertised like an absolute truth and reality, if it was clearly stated that's a point of view, I'd have nothing to complain… also if it's a point of view, why he deleted comments and block people that express their point of view in a civil manner, often providing real facts?</p>

        • chocolate starfish

          23 September, 2019 - 7:01 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#469648">In reply to dontbeevil:</a></em></blockquote><p>"why he deleted comments and block people that express their point of view in a civil manner"</p><p><br></p><p>Civil? You consider constantly questioning the integrity of Paul, Mehedi and the site in general to be civil. Good grief!</p>

          • dontbeevil

            23 September, 2019 - 7:05 am

            <blockquote><em><a href="#469699">In reply to chocolate starfish:</a></em></blockquote><p>As long as they're not clearly stating that's their personal opinion, and they're not providing any trusted source to their statements… Yes I can civil questioning them, we're in democracy </p>

        • Greg Green

          24 September, 2019 - 8:38 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#469648">In reply to dontbeevil:</a></em></blockquote><p>Based on your performance here, you are generally unable to disagree with a person without insulting them. That’s a problem either you solve on your own, or the website owner solves it by banning you. Again.</p><p><br></p><p>It really is that simple.</p>

  • Chris_Kez

    Premium Member
    22 September, 2019 - 1:35 pm

    <p>The real gap for me is still mobile, as I'm much more likely to be using my phone at night than my desktop.</p>

    • Ben Lee

      22 September, 2019 - 3:33 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#469484">In reply to Chris_Kez:</a></em></blockquote><p>You can still use extensions on Firefox mobile and it works great there.</p>

    • pepesilvia

      22 September, 2019 - 3:39 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#469484">In reply to Chris_Kez:</a></em></blockquote><p>Check out the app Hermit on Android. Allows you to "app-ify" any web site as an icon on the home screen, plus some other customizations (e.g. block ads, apply dark mode …)</p>

      • IanYates82

        Premium Member
        23 September, 2019 - 7:00 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#469489">In reply to pepesilvia:</a></em></blockquote><p>I'll check it out. Thanks</p>

  • rosyna

    23 September, 2019 - 2:04 am

    <p>Instead of using an extension, why not have Thurrott.com implement the actual standard for supporting dark mode?</p><p><br></p><p>it’s supported in every major browser, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Android’s browser, et cetera via the color-scheme CSS selector.</p><p><br></p>

  • mike2thel73

    23 September, 2019 - 1:09 pm

    <p>meanwhile I can get this for free (don't worry I'll throw the dude a couple of bucks) on chrome, Firefox, &amp; edge but it's $5 in the Mac App Store. I'll wait for apple to bring dark mode to safari without an extension and a forced donation of $5.</p>

  • dkrowe

    Premium Member
    23 September, 2019 - 1:57 pm

    <p>Been using this at work for a few weeks now with Beta channel and my eyes are loving it. Sometimes drop-down controls don't get dark-ified, but I can live with that.</p>

  • dallasnorth40

    Premium Member
    23 September, 2019 - 2:44 pm

    <p>Very, very nice! Thanks for this tip!</p>

  • Jim Lewis

    23 September, 2019 - 6:18 pm

    <p>Great tip! Thanks!</p>

  • diamond575

    Premium Member
    24 September, 2019 - 1:09 pm

    <p>Awesome! I have been using it all day at work since I read the article yesterday. Thanks!</p>

  • khatarnakideas

    14 April, 2020 - 7:47 am

    <p>Great tips thanks<a href="about:blank" target="_blank">.</a></p>

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