Firefox Dark Mode Theme
I have Firefox set to dark mode in the theme settings. How do I block websites from seeing this information? I don't understand why website like eBay and DuckDuckGo think they can change how I view there website becasue of my setting in Firefox. I completely understand that this may be a convenience for some people, my point is though if there is an option for it, where is the option against it! Some websites look terrible in dark mode! Also why do websites need so much information about my computer and browser when I visit them? Why can't I bock this as well? Why does a website need to know what operating system I run. My point is.. if it's not necessary for the website to work then it should not be shared. privacy!
Believe it or not, I'm a human and make mistakes. I like my free will. I like to make stupid and illogical decisions sometimes, I like to make mistakes, and learn from them. Why are algorithms trying to control my life? I don't want a perfect utopian life run by machines that have no soul.
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Hi
A number of people (including me!) find it useful for Firefox to appreciate that we wish to have a less bright web and to reduce the colour palette on pages that acknowledge that preference.
I do appreciate that not everyone would like this to happen, so you may wish to try a dark theme available from the Themes section of the add-ons library. This should just theme Firefox and not websites.
The Bing website has just implemented this aswell. I will try and find a theme that can give me an option of dark mode without websites seeing this option.
I still don't understand why Web browsers allow websites to have so much information about their visitors... like OS info etc. I want to be able to have more control over what information websites and the IOT knows about me. If they didn't treat me as a statistic, and only used my information to improve my user experience I would be ok with it. As we all know that's not how the internet works.
Obviously the options are limited for themes/add on for Firefox Android, and because we don't have access to about:config we are stuck being dicated to.
As far as I know, websites do not directly learn what theme you are applying to the toolbar area. However, the can create multiple sets of style rules keyed off of whether your operating system is set to use a dark theme.* You can override that by specifying that you prefer a light scheme for web pages. Here's how you would create the override:
(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
(B) In the search box, type or paste ui.systemUsesDarkTheme
(C) Firefox should display a bar with some radio buttons to choose a new preference type, followed by a + button. Choose Number and click the + button:
(D) Edit the value to either 0 (Light) or 1 (Dark) and then click the blue check mark button or press Enter/Return to save the change.
Success?
* This article has information for web developers on how to implement this adaptation, as well as mentioning the override option: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme
Whoops, is your question for Android? The above reply was for desktop versions of Firefox (Windows, Mac, Linux).
Thank you for getting back to me jscher2000
The question was mainly for Firefox Android. However I have this problem for desktop too. I will try the above mentioned option, for desktop and I will try it on the Android version if about:config option comes back. Thank you.