Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
Review by Siz
Rated 1 out of 5
by Siz, 2 months agoYeah this is a complete bait and switch scam. It comes off as a "free extension" but when you download it they straight up are like "give me money or we'll lock the extension and also cause physical damage to your computer with a "memory leak" issue." Most of the "5 star reviews" are obvious AI bot reviews too, so don't let that fool you either. I mean sure the saying its "FOSS" but requiring payment is one thing and yeah you should just say "we require payment" on the ad. Purposely wording things in a way that beats around the bush is scummy, but a lot of these extensions and apps do this and it's expected at this point unfortunately.
Having "memory leak issues" due to faulty programming which causes physical damage to someone's computer, and to also require payment at the same time makes me feel sorry for the unfortunate people that are less computer literate that actually paid these hacks $10 and are wondering why their CPU and Memory are running at max load constantly. Use that $10 or whatever the exchange rate for your country is and go to the local corner-store and get a cheap pair of sunglasses if you need dark mode this badly. It's safer for your computer, phone, and wallet. We're in a memory shortage crisis as is and these jerks are going to cause you to be paying more than $10 for their badly programmed "gimmick" down the line.
Having "memory leak issues" due to faulty programming which causes physical damage to someone's computer, and to also require payment at the same time makes me feel sorry for the unfortunate people that are less computer literate that actually paid these hacks $10 and are wondering why their CPU and Memory are running at max load constantly. Use that $10 or whatever the exchange rate for your country is and go to the local corner-store and get a cheap pair of sunglasses if you need dark mode this badly. It's safer for your computer, phone, and wallet. We're in a memory shortage crisis as is and these jerks are going to cause you to be paying more than $10 for their badly programmed "gimmick" down the line.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18969383, 9 days agoUsed to be a great extension, but over the last year or so it's gotten worse to use. There is 0 reason a PC with a 16 core / 32 thread cpu, 32gb ram, and a 2070 Super FE should have frequent tab crashes and closures over a DARK MODE EXTENSION. Optimize your code, goodness. I can't even open facebook anymore with the extension on, it's gotten that bad.
- Rated 2 out of 5by The Cap'n, 12 days agoI wanted to like this extension, tried it for several weeks. **Constant** tab crashes and memory leaks from overly aggressive CSS injections. As long as Dark Reader has been around, I just don't understand how this level of extension instability is even possible. GitHub is wholesale unnavigable due to tab crashes.
I ended up settling with manual changes to my browser's color/high contrast settings to force a global override on site colors. This at least works without ramping memory usage or crashing tabs. While it's a somewhat crude solution, that solution is indeed more effective and stable than using a third-party extension. - Rated 3 out of 5by Latra404, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18043261, 15 days agoPutting a gun to your head for money .. no thanks. There other extensions doing the same thing just as effectively.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alexander A., 19 days agoHey! I have a weird problem with this extension:
I made a userscript that highlights certain text on a page, but DarkReader keeps overriding my high visibility colors (neon yellow, magenta, cyan, etc.) with neutral versions of these colors. I tried to be slick and added 'darkreader' class to my style element to trick the extension into thinking that it is its own style and ignore it, and it worked! But now I found out that DarkReader deletes all its styles on websites that already have dark theme, including my own style.
Is there any way to make DarkDeader ignore certain CSS styles or rules? - Rated 5 out of 5by ArseniosTs, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by matija, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FlameWhiskers, 21 days agoThis extension saved my eyeballs from feeling like they were burning when I'd visit sites on my television and being encountered by a blinding white page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Maribel, 21 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20022895, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by WilsonBorkowski, 23 days agoThis extension is great. I had previously tried the Dark Mode by Bernard extension but was frustrated because it was either everything on or off. It was not easy to whitelist webpages and more often than not websites end up looking weird with dark mode applied to them. But this extension lets me set the site list to inverted listed only so by default it is off and only on for specific domains that I add. That's perfect for me because I would much rather add the few sites I actually want dark mode on than exclude every site where I don't like it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by FAFAFAP, 24 days ago