Chrome Extension That Forces Dark Mode Intelligently
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
"Intelligent" dark modes try to read a site's design and recolor it piece by piece. That's not how every extension works.
Modern Dark Mode applies the same filter to every page, flipping its colors while turning images, videos, canvases and SVGs back to normal so they aren't ruined. That makes it predictable and light, but it doesn't read the site's design, and it doesn't detect sites that are already dark: it would turn GitHub's dark theme light, for example. Tick "Exclude this site" for those, or for any site where the result looks wrong.
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