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Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Hello DarkReader my old friend...

~~Which you still need for mobile~~. Edit: Nope.

[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, its available on mobile too. Just go to

Sidebar>Settings>Colour

(Options to choose from)

Light
Dark
Automatic

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 3 months ago

Oh look at that. It was hiding from me.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that requires cookies. Not everybody allows them. I block everything that isn't a first party cookie, and set them to delete every time I close my browser.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair though, "The website doesn't remember my settings because I don't let it," isn't really a problem the website can solve.

I just had a thought that I'd like to see a plugin that independently remembers whichever cookie-based settings you want it to on a per-site basis and then re-inserts those settings into fresh cookies whenever you visit using some sort of search & replace or markup interpeter. Basically a way to maintain personal control over what data cookies can hold.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

They could solve it by not using tracking cookies so that I don't have to do this in a futile attempt to protect my privacy.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

maybe it'd be nice if we just had "config registers" alongside cookies that just allowed us to store a single bytes worth of information in it or something. Would be perfect for things like darkmode.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

The Wikipedia app has had dark mode for a while. Plus dark mode in Firefox works fine with no extensions.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Dark Reader on Firefox mobile works well for me!

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

pretty sure mobile darkmode for wikipedia has been avaliable for a while now