It seems Tor and Mullvad Browser do not actually allow Dark Mode. It can be enabled, but that goes against the strong advice of privacy guides to not change anything. And even when enabled, webpages are automatically in light mode - including when I search in Duckduckgo or visit Privacy Guides. As…

As a privacy protecting work around, I guess you could lower your screen brightness to its very minimum. You also can take a screenshot from there and pass it to something like GIMP/Krita/what have you and invert the colors to make it dark. you will get a dark background from a white background web…

For regular browsing I actually use Dark Reader since most websites don’t support dark mode. It’s not great in regards to privacy/security, but even without dark mode, I doubt I’d be much better off . For anything sensitive, there doesn’t seem to be a solution. You either risk de-anonymizing yourself…

I think I might have thought of decent solution. Something like this: -Find out how to to toggle dark mode in browser website through a terminal command. -Create keyboard shortcut for such command. -Each time I visit a new website which I know I will return to, and which has a dark mode toggle bu…

[image] anon4510900: The dark mode preference doesn’t get transmitted to the website as its another setting that can be fingerprinted. I don’t disagree with the comment. But can you clarify what you mean by it not being “transmitted to the website”? AFAIK, the dark mode preference can actuall…

[image] anon4510900: browsers will always report prefers-color-scheme as light no matter what This isn’t true though. If a user has dark mode set in the OS settings, the browser will respect that and return whatever it is. I know because I use it :slight_smile:

According to many sources when you search “how many people use dark mode”, nearly all the people (80%+) use dark mode on mobile, which is by far the majority of internet users. Therefore, I think if you want to blend in with other people, the way is to use dark mode, not the other way around. Howev…

[image] anon21489307: According to many sources when you search “how many people use dark mode”, nearly all the people (80%+) use dark mode on mobile, which is by far the majority of internet users. I am extremely skeptical of those statistics. Do you know where they came from / what the meth…

Ive seen regular user on desktops. They dont know how to set things in dark mode. Only a few knows how to actually switch to it. Even fewer could install an addon to enable dark mode on non-dark mode sites. Therefore, light mode may be better for privacy/fingerprinting.

[image] xe3: I am extremely skeptical of those statistics. Do you know where they came from / what the methodology is? I don’t know whether those statistics are creditable. Most sources/statistics say that users use dark mode. For example, 83% of Reddit users on the app have enabled dark mode…

You know what I dont think using darkmode will significantly add to fingerprinting. Can someone prove me wrong? It may be just literally an added bit of identifier.

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trkp2 October 30, 2023, 11:28am 16

@prosperina A media query is a value that can be sent to a server just like anything else on a web page. Websites can store it or they may choose not to. I’m not too sure how that’s relevant to what we were originally discussing though. Can you clarify?

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