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Comment by Dig1t | Hacker News Reader

Hell yeah, this is really good thing to see!

I've been 100% DDG for ~6 months now and almost never have to use !g anymore. Part of the problem was getting over the anxiety of wanting to double check with Google every time I use the service. 99% of the time I use !g I get the same results as what I got from DDG anyway. Plus having the dark theme saves my eyes and battery.

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That FOMO is real. In some cases, ddg is similar to earlier versions of google where second or third link was more what you wanted but all of the links would be somewhat interesting if not relevant beyond first pages.

Google now a days is optimised for top links and page only. If you didn't find what you wanted there, then the rest is not what you are looking for. Anything after first page on Google is 90% useless. Anything beyond first few links is useless. And those first links have a good chance of being filled with ads.

A dark theme only saves battery on an OLED or CRT screen. LCD screens (i.e. most) use slightly more energy displaying black than white. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-b...

LCD panels can be active dark or active light depending on how the polarizer is oriented and the specific display technology used, so it is not useful to blanket claim they slightly go either way, it varies. The linked article only took two samples (probably both TN panels which are generally active black) with unknown error margins, i.e. it is not a scientific study of how much power LCDs use in general.

Let's just say there is no significant difference between white and black for LCDs in general.

I believe most phones are OLED now..

Most Samsung phones, maybe. A lot of other brands are not using OLED.

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