Your first mistake towards sustainability is visiting Nestle in the first place. That company's existence is the opposite of sustainability.

According to a Purdue University Study dark mode can save 3 to 9% of your battery if you're on auto brightness. Let's say your average phone uses 15Wh per day (5.475 kWh per year). Let's say 5 billion people use smartphones. That's around 30 TWh for total yearly smartphone consumption.

So if everyone was using dark mode, it could save around 0.8 to 2.5 TWh a year in the best case scenario. But that is if everything on your phone was dark mode. Not sure how much time people spend browsing websites percentually.

That's around 0.1 to 2.7 times the daily electric energy production of all nuclear power plants.

The world electricity production is around 23000 TWh per year, so you could save around 0.0036% to 0.01% of yearly energy consumption by switching everyone to dark mode.

Such impactful, much environment, wow

Fuck Nestlé and all but it is a more sustainable experience for your retinas.

On devices with OLED screens, the more pixels on the screen are lit up, the more power the screen consumes. So on the majority of smart phones these days, dark mode will slightly reduce energy consumption. Devices with LCD screens will likely show no difference, and we're talking a fairly negligible amount of power here anyway.

Lmao, says company that literally dries out local aquifers and puts that water in plastic bottles…but dArK ModE 🫠

Advertising and corporate messaging are not about being right, but only about appearing right to a sufficient number of people.

On OLED screens dark mode does actually save power. My phone switches to dark mode when I turn on battery saving mode.

It probably doesn't matter much in the grand theme of this, but let's keep the criticism factual. God knows you don't need to make up arguments to criticize Nestle.

It doesn't, but Nestlé's CEO probably thinks he can use this as an excuse to enter through the Pearly Gates rather than get tossed into the pit that's reserved for him in Hell.

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I don't think anyone spenda enough time on their site to make a real difference, it's all show-boating.

What's up with giant corporations and guilt tripping people into switching to dark mode? I've heard win11 does this as well.

Guess what? Cycling dark mode results in over 300 requests to nestle servers, so it does use power sending all those requests