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Quote from: libert19 on January 10, 2025, 09:39:43 AM

By the way, what made you switch from IPhone to Android? And having tried both, which do you like more?

ah, iPhones are too expensive here Sad

The walled App Store being gone though makes me super happy.

..and in terms of usability? Which OS do you find more convenient? Iphones are known for privacy (at least better compared to android), do you find this a good compromise?

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Quote from: libert19 on January 10, 2025, 09:39:43 AM

By the way, what made you switch from IPhone to Android? And having tried both, which do you like more?

ah, iPhones are too expensive here Sad

The walled App Store being gone though makes me super happy.

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 10:05:02 PM

My device is already in dark mode but I will see what happens when I use that chrome flag.

So now reduce the brightness.

Modern smartphones, as is the idea that everyone will watch 4K videos all the time, always set the colors and light to maximum, so that the person can have a "fantastic experience"... But, I don't watch 4K videos on my smartphone. So reduce all the extras, besides saving battery, save the most important thing - my eyes!

Mate, brightness was on the lowest and my eyes were seething until I turned on Dark Mode from Opera's settings.

Nice of them to have such a convenient switch.

You may try Samsung Internet browser, here you can change the brightness of dark mode as well (all browsers may have dark mode, but not all have this option), which makes huge difference as I see it.

Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 01:46:44 PM

...And why is the editor text so big and got underlines all over it? I must have been using my iPhone for too long. Lol

For editor text it could be due to browser's font settings while red underlines could be due to keyboard's spellcheck.

By the way, what made you switch from IPhone to Android? And having tried both, which do you like more?

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Quote from: joker_josue on January 03, 2025, 02:13:03 PM

Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 10:05:02 PM

My device is already in dark mode but I will see what happens when I use that chrome flag.

So now reduce the brightness.

Modern smartphones, as is the idea that everyone will watch 4K videos all the time, always set the colors and light to maximum, so that the person can have a "fantastic experience"... But, I don't watch 4K videos on my smartphone. So reduce all the extras, besides saving battery, save the most important thing - my eyes!

Mate, brightness was on the lowest and my eyes were seething until I turned on Dark Mode from Opera's settings.

Nice of them to have such a convenient switch.

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Quote from: promise444c5 on January 02, 2025, 02:59:51 PM

My phone is always on dark mode and so is the browser aswell... the browser theme has always worked for me anyways.

Quote from: joker_josue on January 02, 2025, 02:47:02 PM

Have you ever thought about reducing the brightness of your screen or activating Android's night mode?
I say this because these are useful solutions to avoid having to use extra apps or scripts.

I do that quite alot plus adding a privacy screen guard which reduces the light a little bit just that the disadvantage is that it reduce visibilityin day(especially when ou try to view under the sun).
Hence I use a particular app to go pro especially in the night , it's called 'Blue Light Filter" ( incase anyone is interested, not an advert )... infact , sometimes I do change it to black and white theme using the same filter app..

Adding a screen guard to my mobile phone could help reduce the brightness, which is beneficial, especially at night. Although it might be less effective in sunny conditions, I think it's still a better option than not having one. I haven't tried any apps for this purpose yet, but I plan to search for some, as I often struggle to operate my phone in the dark.

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 01:46:44 PM

Hey guys. It's 9:39 PM here, and the bright white background when I open Bitcointalk on my new phone is burning my eyeballs out. So do you all know of any userscripts I can add to chrome to make this site run on dark mode like the rest of my phone?
Also, it looks like it's intelligent enough to not wipe out my entire post when I navigate away.

And why is the editor text so big and got underlines all over it? I must have been using my iPhone for too long. Lol

Well light theme can be a hell lot of problem especially if you are someone that spends a lot of time on screen. Anyways I've tried the force dark mode on chrome before but the truth is it's not very nice still my best approach is to make use of photo chromic or blue light filter glasses. Sometimes when I'm faced with extensive screen time I do turn on blue light filter on my device too. It dulls down the amount of blue light that hits the eyes while you stare.

Quote from: DYING_S0UL on January 03, 2025, 11:43:16 AM

Btw, I tried the BPIP extension custom theme, the dark purple one. And every time I refresh the page a big white flash appears for a split second which also hurts!

Well that flash seems to be just a few milliseconds and that I think is as a result of the BPIP extension lagging behind in taking effects immediately the page loads up. Depending on how much processing power and speed your device has you can reduce its effect. Still there are few other browsers that have a better night theme.

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Quote from: DYING_S0UL on January 03, 2025, 11:43:16 AM

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Btw, I tried the BPIP extension custom theme, the dark purple one. And every time I refresh the page a big white flash appears for a split second which also hurts! Undecided

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I tried everything I could to get rid of that flash!

We're going back a long time ago but I recall it having to do with the DOM tree and when it was being loaded within the extension, I believe caching helped with this as you clicked through, but refreshes would cause it and sometimes it would happen without a refresh, as the CSS was loaded/injected. The CSS code itself should work under other extensions like Stylus, if you wanted to try something like that but I could never get the flash fully eliminated from the BPIP extension itself. If you want the direct code, I had posted it here as well.

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 10:05:02 PM

My device is already in dark mode but I will see what happens when I use that chrome flag.

So now reduce the brightness.

Modern smartphones, as is the idea that everyone will watch 4K videos all the time, always set the colors and light to maximum, so that the person can have a "fantastic experience"... But, I don't watch 4K videos on my smartphone. So reduce all the extras, besides saving battery, save the most important thing - my eyes!

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Quote from: dkbit98 on January 02, 2025, 02:09:33 PM

There is another ''trick'' that works on desktop using flags, not sure if this is possible in android but you can try:

Code:

chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

PS
BPIP extension also have dark mode available in settings.

It works, but it looks funny at first glance. It's not the typical dark mode we are used to. It looks like undeveloped negative images. The texts are fine but the images are kinda funky and weird. So instead of comforting my eyes, it's irritating. I guess I'll just revert back to the white theme and use the night light/reading mode that is built on my phone.

Btw, I tried the BPIP extension custom theme, the dark purple one. And every time I refresh the page a big white flash appears for a split second which also hurts! Undecided

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 01:46:44 PM

snip..

On an android mobile or an iOS, you are getting exposed to Google tracking. I hope you know the consequences of using an OS which has Google bloatware already installed. Do remember Google does co-operates with the federal agencies of the US.

Looking at those replies of you it seems you have Google tracking you. Check r/degoogle they have an android OS or iOS that removes al Google applications.

Coming back to the original topic, just reduce the brightness of your display and you will be fine with the white background. I somehow feel you created this topic to as a survey to find out probably browsers which satisfies your next project Grin

. It is my assumption and nothing more.

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 10:05:02 PM

I just noticed there is no ad blocker on chrome, so that's hardly ideal when I run on a metered connection. So I guess maybe Opera and its data-saving mode will be useful there too.

Opera browser is a closed source and it comes with a bunch of bloatware installed.
Brave browser is a bit better and it is coming with ad-blocker but you need to manually disable some extra stuff.
Few other options you have are DuckDuckGo browser or Firefox.

Quote from: Shishir99 on January 03, 2025, 06:00:32 AM

It worked for me. But the images and the signature look weird in this mode. But it looks much better when I am reading or writing. I assume if I want to disable it, I can just follow the same instructions and disable it. Right?

Yes you can disable it anytime.
Just bookmark the link I posted and change to default Disabled settings.
You can also play with different inversion settings and see what works best for you.

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Quote from: dkbit98 on January 02, 2025, 02:09:33 PM

There is another ''trick'' that works on desktop using flags, not sure if this is possible in android but you can try:

Code:

chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark

It worked for me. But the images and the signature look weird in this mode. But it looks much better when I am reading or writing. I assume if I want to disable it, I can just follow the same instructions and disable it. Right? I was curious to check what YouTube would look like in this mode. It wasn't too bad. But I realized a note from each YouTube video which is "Restricted Mode has hidden comments for this video."

Whatever the reason is, I am gonna try this mode for a while and see if I face something wrong or if it works fine for me.

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Alternative to what people has contributed here you can turn on your android screen to dark-mode, then enable "Eye care On at Sunset", and also turn on light adaptive. Whenever i am on mobile this feature helps me a lot to control my view on the forum. This was my experience when I started navigating the forum though my android instead of using pc, and pc is more relaxed while using it than phone and there are some text i may finds difficulties reading them because it's too tiny for view. The best place to explore the forum more better is through Tablet, Personal computer or desktop.

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 10:05:02 PM

Hmm.

I think I might end up just using Firefox or Opera or another browser instead.

I just noticed there is no ad blocker on chrome, so that's hardly ideal when I run on a metered connection. So I guess maybe Opera and its data-saving mode will be useful there too.

My device is already in dark mode but I will see what happens when I use that chrome flag.

Use Firefox then. I am using Firefox too. you can install ublock origin in firefox mobile version and it works like a charm.. never used Opera. so not sure about that.

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Hmm.

I think I might end up just using Firefox or Opera or another browser instead.

I just noticed there is no ad blocker on chrome, so that's hardly ideal when I run on a metered connection. So I guess maybe Opera and its data-saving mode will be useful there too.

My device is already in dark mode but I will see what happens when I use that chrome flag.

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Quote from: joker_josue on January 02, 2025, 02:47:02 PM

Have you ever thought about reducing the brightness of your screen or activating Android's night mode?

I say this because these are useful solutions to avoid having to use extra apps or scripts.

The solution I think could prove the best with it having to stress on this and that set up. Reducing the brightest of your device either manually or put it on auto so, it adjust based on the brightness of your environment.other than this, the switch between light and dark mode would be another cool way around this.
Other than this, I don’t find it much of an issue down here, the auto brightness setup does the trick and additionally, I turn on eye protection to protect my vision from those blue rays during screen time.

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Quote from: joker_josue on January 02, 2025, 02:47:02 PM

Have you ever thought about reducing the brightness of your screen or activating Android's night mode?

I say this because these are useful solutions to avoid having to use extra apps or scripts.

Some tips for adjusting the light on an Android:
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-adjust-brightness-android-phone

How to activate night mode:
https://www.androidauthority.com/night-mode-on-android-886864/

Personally, I prefer to always have less brightness on the screen. When more brightness is needed, I adjust it manually.

This will probably do the trick, one don't need any complex method to put it in dark mode, you can just reduced the brightness of the screen.

Most time when I get tired of the white background on bitcointalk I will just put my device in dark mode using the dark mode icon and it will automatically turn Dark background .

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Quote from: LoyceV on January 02, 2025, 03:07:27 PM

I've never used a dark mode on anything. Just less brightness is all I need.

There are some people that prefer to lessen their phone brightness than to use dark mode. Also some people will put it on 'eye care' at night which can filter out the blue ray light which is what that is affecting the eyes but it can make someone to sleep faster. I have tried all but dark mode is better in the night than to just reduce the light.

There was another browser which were two on Android that has good dark mode. If you search for Aloa on playstore, you will see the two of them. They both have good dark mode.

If you want to stick to chrome, read what Wonder Work posted above.

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For Android, the Opera browser comes with built-in Dark mode,

To Opt dark more, click the profile Icon at the bottom right corner and there you can see the darkmode, just toggle it and everything becomes black.

Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 01:46:44 PM

And why is the editor text so big and got underlines all over it? I must have been using my iPhone for too long. Lol

Underlines are probably as a result of spelling errs, so you might wanna check the spelling or it's probably as a result of differences in US and UK English versions.

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Quote from: NotATether on January 02, 2025, 01:46:44 PM

my new phone is burning my eyeballs out.

Quote from: joker_josue on January 02, 2025, 02:47:02 PM

Some tips for adjusting the light on an Android:

I remember the days, "2 phones ago", when my phone automatically adjusted the screen brightness depending on the ambient light. That worked very well. But since then, my phones refuse to do it correctly, and several times per day I have to manually adjust the screen brightness.
I've never used a dark mode on anything. Just less brightness is all I need.

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