In a previous post I asked what your thoughts were on the theme I was working on and it immediately became apparent that users were wondering how this would affect their anonymity.

From my research on the matter I found that this should generally not be a concern. I recommend you read my detailed explanation which can be found in the readme of the source code.

The theme is originally designed for the Tor browser, but I made an extra effort to make it work on Firefox as well. You can install it from the add-ons store if you'd like to check it out. 😄

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

Tor browser uses dark mode by default

Is this a recent change? I missed it.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    For me it’s dark mode by default. 🤔 I use MacOS but I think it should be the same on all operating systems.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I get light mode on Tor Browser for Android:

    Browser supports prefers-color-scheme: yes
    Browser exposes prefers-color-scheme as: light

    https://septatrix.github.io/prefers-color-scheme-test/

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    This website always reports light for me as well, same goes for manually checking with JavaScript. I think that value gets spoofed regardless of the enabled theme.

    Relevant issues:

    Edit: added another relevant issue

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    So does that mean dark mode is not the browser default? I only linked to this website because it's the most specific, but I also tried duckduckgo and a couple other sites, which all also loaded in light mode.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 months ago

    It’s the default (as in default selected theme) for desktop. I’m not sure if that’s the case for Android, I unfortunately don’t own an Android phone currently to check.

    The prefers-color-scheme being reported as light seems to be coming from Firefox’s resist fingerprinting feature (which is always enabled on Tor browser).

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