Are there any privacy-respecting dark mode add-ons for Firefox that you would recommend? I’ve read online that Dark Reader isn’t great for privacy.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Swapping out colours/fonts at the rendering layer is essentially what I was thinking but I go a step further by completely separating the rendering/interaction from the actual web sandbox running any code.

    Do you have a proof-of-concept? What does this run on?

    • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I haven’t written any code yet. Just a concept I was playing with. I mean if u wanted a proof of concept then u could probably do it in js with a browser extension and some python code in a docker image.

      U use playwrite to send the Dom over a web socket (keeping the content in sync with decent performance might not be the easiest task) and the extension just passes keyboard and mouse back. Then u just put the virtual browser in docker container.

      I wrote and run the bot for !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com and if u go have a look at its source u can see that its pretty easy to have a virtual browser controlled with playwrite.

      This would be quite a bit of a shit experience and would probably break extension like ublock that rely on filtering what pages u can access but it would work as a proof of concept.