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I wish Google introduced a dark theme too. Hopefully all sites on the internet become dark friendly one day without using external software to make it happen.

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prefers-color-scheme is soon going to be a thing: https://caniuse.com/#search=prefers-color-scheme

The idea is to have one OS-wide dark theme switch and your browser to expose that preference to the websites. Latest iOS/Android/Windows already have that OS-wide preference, but, you know, it'll take quite a while before your favorite websites start supporting it.

As your link says, it already works for Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, which to me makes it "a thing." The only big browser that (apparently) doesn't support it is Edge.

Which is dying anyways.

Sadly it doesn't work in Firefox after setting `privacy.resistFingerprinting` and Mozilla refuses to allow an override :(

Interesting, I didn't know that. I wonder if it would be possible to fix that with a userscript.

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