Reviews for Dark Reader
Dark Reader by Dark Reader Ltd
Review by Siz
Rated 1 out of 5
by Siz, a month agoYeah this is a complete bait and switch scam. It comes off as a "free extension" but when you download it they straight up are like "give me money or we'll lock the extension and also cause physical damage to your computer with a "memory leak" issue." Most of the "5 star reviews" are obvious AI bot reviews too, so don't let that fool you either. I mean sure the saying its "FOSS" but requiring payment is one thing and yeah you should just say "we require payment" on the ad. Purposely wording things in a way that beats around the bush is scummy, but a lot of these extensions and apps do this and it's expected at this point unfortunately.
Having "memory leak issues" due to faulty programming which causes physical damage to someone's computer, and to also require payment at the same time makes me feel sorry for the unfortunate people that are less computer literate that actually paid these hacks $10 and are wondering why their CPU and Memory are running at max load constantly. Use that $10 or whatever the exchange rate for your country is and go to the local corner-store and get a cheap pair of sunglasses if you need dark mode this badly. It's safer for your computer, phone, and wallet. We're in a memory shortage crisis as is and these jerks are going to cause you to be paying more than $10 for their badly programmed "gimmick" down the line.
Having "memory leak issues" due to faulty programming which causes physical damage to someone's computer, and to also require payment at the same time makes me feel sorry for the unfortunate people that are less computer literate that actually paid these hacks $10 and are wondering why their CPU and Memory are running at max load constantly. Use that $10 or whatever the exchange rate for your country is and go to the local corner-store and get a cheap pair of sunglasses if you need dark mode this badly. It's safer for your computer, phone, and wallet. We're in a memory shortage crisis as is and these jerks are going to cause you to be paying more than $10 for their badly programmed "gimmick" down the line.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by WilsonBorkowski, 2 days agoThis extension is great. I had previously tried the Dark Mode by Bernard extension but was frustrated because it was either everything on or off. It was not easy to whitelist webpages and more often than not websites end up looking weird with dark mode applied to them. But this extension lets me set the site list to inverted listed only so by default it is off and only on for specific domains that I add. That's perfect for me because I would much rather add the few sites I actually want dark mode on than exclude every site where I don't like it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by FAFAFAP, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zach, 3 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by QWERTY-AZERTY, 4 days agoGreat extnsion, but sadly, it slows down a lot of sites. it will work fine, but sites where you look at images slow down heavily. Other than that, it is a must have! ❤️
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16919051, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 肉肉, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by السكة المتطورة, 10 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Strangueloop, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jeeyu, 11 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Yaroslav, 12 days agoTriple-reloads websites and makes them incredibly slow, holy garbage tool, $120K of supporters' money down the drain
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20043519, 13 days agoIt pains me to rate it this low as I do love it, but with the last update it's now slowing down google docs to an almost unusable state. A shame, since it's the only reason I have this addon and until now it was seamlessly functional. Messed with settings but the only thing that fixes it is turning it off entirely. Using a mac.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 20042870, 13 days agoAlmost perfect. Occasionally, for unknown reasons, it gets turned off on some websites. Working through temporary blindness, I'll have to disable, then re-enable it for those sites.
- Rated 5 out of 5by omid meshkinghalam, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nox, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Doston, 15 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by cocobrED, 16 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by boopysnoopy, 17 days agoFor whatever reason- despite having it configured to be "On", I've had to manually turn it on, aka go into the UI and click on the domain name to check it, for it to work.
Sounds like a minor issue. But I'll often not realize that I'm in light mode on a site especially when I'm getting tired. I wont realize that my eyes are straining, and when I do, I think: Monitor brightness is low, so what could it be?
...Ohhh, right. Dark Reader isn't doing anything again. Sigh
Anyways, is it really true that this addon is responsible for memory leaks? extensions are sometimes hounded by baseless accusations of malware and stuff, but its happening more and more often that extensions actually are the culprit behind browser performance issues - Rated 4 out of 5by hoangkamam, 18 days agosome sites with cloudflare protection can't verify human when Dark reader is on.
quick work around is temporary turn off and turn it back on after cloudflare verified. - Rated 5 out of 5by Blood-Art, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amin, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Asclepius, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by The Real frostbyte, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by eworm, 22 days ago