Release: OLED Mode extension for Chrome

https://github.com/FreelanceProgrammingServices/Chrome-OLED-Mode

by WindowsDev • 1 year ago

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I made this for my own personal usage because Dark Reader stinks. Let me know what you think.

rock_artist• 1 year ago

Very nice idea, cannot wait to test it on my Windows laptop with OLED.

One interesting note though, the screenshots are on macOS where OLED is less expected "in the wild".

vultour• 1 year ago

From the name alone I assumed this was going to move the browser UI around to prevent burn-in. Has anyone attempted this yet? Perhaps as a native feature?

eknkc• 1 year ago

Is burn in still a thing?

Early gen OLEDs had abysmal burn in and I had devices with static ui elements like status bars etched into screen in a couple of months.

It feels like history now.

bloqs• 1 year ago

Very much so. Getting it on a 360hz monitor currently due to my own neglect

dcow2• 1 year ago

The on-device hardware even does neat little tricks like shift your image around by a pixel or two so you don’t have to think about it. Haven't ever seen burn-in on an OLED, myself.

LtdJorge• 1 year ago

The pixel shifting that GP mentions is already included in most if not all. I'm dailying an LG C3 42" as a monitor and these 16 months, so far so good.

However, I am on Linux and running a custom "DE" with Sway, my background is pure black and swayidle locks my screen in 3 minutes (to black). Also, anytime I get up, I power it off because even if it's displaying only black, the screensaver kicks in after some time (dumb feature that I cannot disable and would be better served by my solution).

wtcactus• 1 year ago

Yes, OLED burn in it’s still very much a thing and it didn’t improve significantly- or at all.

You can see this YouTube channel (my go to when choosing monitors) and the tests they did on that particular subject: https://youtu.be/k-NOoMklpPM

WindowsDev14• 1 year ago

It currently does not, just handles applying a uniform black theme across all domains. Good suggestion though, I will look into implementing this today. (My idea is, to use a custom zooming offset determined by the date- applying a random zoom % between 0 and 116 while keeping font size original, not too obvious to the person but enough to shift the pixels around a bit.

nyanpasu64• 1 year ago

TBH I wonder what's going on with the hyper-generic username of "FreelanceProgrammingServices", profile picture, and the HN username of WindowsDev who has made three GitHub submissions of their own work and posted one comment.

WindowsDev14• 1 year ago

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throw60289• 1 year ago

Why do the JavaScript files in repo "Chrome-OLED-Mode" reference sdmextension[.]com, a known C2 server in a Chrome extension malware campaign identified by GitLab Threat Intelligence? Is this a copy of the malicious "Super dark mode" extension? (ID: nlgphodeccebbcnkgmokeegopgpnjfkc)

https://gitlab-com.gitlab.io/gl-security/security-tech-notes...

frfl2• 1 year ago

This all feels very off. Part of the readme, and I hate to say it as it's almost become a trope at this point, feels like it was AI generated.

Plus the commits are "file uploads". Plus the minified multi-MB source files.

My spidey senses are tingling.

WindowsDev14• 1 year ago

Congrats, you sewed enough paranoia that you got the submission taken down just suspicion alone. Strange though, on a community of developers, no one is able to show specifically how/and where it malicious.

The extension contains no active network communications, no runtime use of webRequest or declarativeNetRequest, no dynamic code loading, and no modifications to HTTP response headers or CSP directives. References to the domain sdmextension.com[now removed anyway] exist solely as unused string constants, entirely inert and functionally irrelevant. The extension’s declared purpose is consistent with its implementation. Accordingly, any assertion that this extension constitutes or facilitates malicious activity is currently unsupported by any evidence.

Etheryte4• 1 year ago

No one should load up an extension that has access to all pages and even the Github source is minified garbage.

smartbit• 1 year ago

See analysis at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735643#43743519 that it is not malware by any valid forensic standard.

RestartKernel• 1 year ago

This extension is a static browser-side script which leverages React's dynamic rendering and live component updating mechanisms. At runtime, it waits for the DOM to finish loading, then injects content into a dedicated element (#__oled). Using ReactDOM.createRoot, it mounts a themed layout component that wraps the core UI, enabling declarative reactivity and efficient DOM updates.

Why does a global theme need to load React? More importantly, why does a code repository contain minified, if not obfuscated, code?

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FreelanceProgrammingServic...

WindowsDev14• 1 year ago

That React stuff is for the interface. It contains transpiled "minified" code so to cut back on the file size. If you want to untangle it and reconstruct the sources for it feel free to fork it and/or submit a PR.

Etheryte4• 1 year ago

This doesn't pass any kind of a sniff test. The file size doesn't need to be small for Github, they don't care. Likewise it doesn't need to be small for the extension since the extension is stored locally, not loaded over the network. Take your malware elsewhere.

extra88• 1 year ago

Alternate idea: use Microsoft Edge on any (desktop) platform, go to Settings > Accessibility > Page colors and set it to Night Sky.

This enables forced color mode with a yellow on black color scheme.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/page-colors

Release: OLED Mode extension for Chrome

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