this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 112 points 1 year ago (4 children)

or... just use darkreader :D

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 26 points 1 year ago

Seconding. Can't imagine not using darkreader in this day and age.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yup yup. Darkreader has improved my entire internet experience, which is a huge accomplishment. Works flawlessly 99% of the time.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

or... just lower your monitor brightness so you don't feel like you need dark mode, which is actually worse in every way than just using the correct monitor brightness.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

With everybody using black pixels, they're becoming more expensive as they rarefy worldwide. This kind of thing was to be expected, really.

[–] kubica@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

I've seen this in many places. I don't remember them because I stop caring when I notice the cut of their jib.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dextero is pretty trash in general so I'm not surprised in the slightest. So much bot content on there

[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a regular visitor, so can't say anything about there content.There was a discussion in the piracy community about the article, so went there to read it: https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/godzilla-minus-one-most-pirated-movie-2696285/

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry I didn't mean any negatively towards you there. I just remember what the site was like before it hit my blocklist. It was before chatgpt got big but everything I read on there was scraped info from other sites and full of errors

[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry I didn't mean any negatively towards you there.

I took your previous comment to be a critic of Dexerto.Not towards me. No apology needed.

Thanks for warning me about their quality, its now on my blocklist too.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No prob..I avoid RockPaperShotgun, too, because 90% of their articles are thinly-veiled ads

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arstechnica does this crap too.

[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ars dark mode switching is infuriating, not an asshole design choice like Dexerto here

Be me,

  • Click on an article link in rss feed.Open in browser(in dark mode)

  • Ars technica doesn't change its theme.

  • Open the menu to switch theme, click on dark mode.

  • Goes to the homepage in dark mode.

  • Go back to rss reader click that link again.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's a lot. I will stick to Dark Reader

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of websites do this the other way around, too. It's very annoying.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, you have to enable dark mode to sign up?

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

No lol just you need to sign up to enable light mode

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

CSS is so premium lol

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox with the extension "Dark Reader" is great. There are some websites I have to disable it, but it's rare. I also recommend uBlock Origin.

Edit: I see someone already recommended dark reader. But it really is a must have extension. It knows if your system theme is set to light or dark and matches it automatically.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

same with news.google.com

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they won’t even turn off the ads if you pay them. what a joke

edit: oops i just saw that these are the “free benefits”

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

there was a android apk site that did that