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YouTube Has a Secret 'Dark Mode' (thenextweb.com)
It appears Google has quietly introduced a new "dark mode" for its video portal YouTube, several people are reporting. Here's how to activate it, via The Next Web:
1. Open the Chrome developer tools tab.
2. Windows users can do this by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I.
3. Mac users can do this by pressing Option + Cmd + I.
4. Select the Console tab.
5. Once in Console, paste the following text: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=fPQ4jCL6EiE"
6. Hit enter.
7. Close the developer tools tab and refresh the page. Just a little heads-up: YouTube might look slightly different -- though still in white.
8. Click the main settings menu in the top right and find the 'Dark Mode' section.
9. Toggle 'Dark Mode' on and you're settled.
1. Open the Chrome developer tools tab.
2. Windows users can do this by pressing Ctrl + Shift + I.
3. Mac users can do this by pressing Option + Cmd + I.
4. Select the Console tab.
5. Once in Console, paste the following text: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=fPQ4jCL6EiE"
6. Hit enter.
7. Close the developer tools tab and refresh the page. Just a little heads-up: YouTube might look slightly different -- though still in white.
8. Click the main settings menu in the top right and find the 'Dark Mode' section.
9. Toggle 'Dark Mode' on and you're settled.
Is there a way to do this in FF or Safari?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
...what? No one told us what "dark mode" is supposed to MEAN. Autism, much, subby?
Hey, how about a screenshot of what it looks like before I try it?
since Dice owns Slashdot, now they're marketing life hacks!
Turns all videos into dick pix
...something isn't a secret if other people know about it.
I'm gay. I want a pink mode or rainbow mode.
Seriously, this is gay.
It's been available for weeks already. I wonder how this post has made it to the front page. A slow news day?
"Dark Mode" has been around for about a year now, at least, and I've gotten prompts to turn it on a few times... no arcane bullshit required.
Just change any "www.youtube.com" URL to "gaming.youtube.com" and presto - Dark theme!
Tune in next week when we discover, again, that some 9-volt batteries have six AAAA-sized cells in them!
=Smidge=
Show you a black window?
YouTube is preparing to re-work their UI in a way that screws PC users, and they want to test it.
screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/60yed59.jpg
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
the dark mode extension for firefox has taken care of this for me.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Christ wtf you have to hack the flags to enable dark mode on youtube? Single-Button -TM technology infringes on the iphone, or what?
Seriously wtf?
... Won't it? Oh, you guys!
Stylish is the most popular extension to do that in every website (as well as other css themes). I'm using the dark mode of /. now.
For youtube there are other extensions as well.
It's strange that the few options a website gives you to see itself is considered "news". Specially since there are tools that give you many more options.
The current rate is a game of golf every five days.
But a New York Times analysis found that Trump has spent 17 days of his presidency at a golf course, compared to Obama's zero by week 12.
http://gizpress.com/2017/04/14/trump-is-beating-obama-in-one-big-way.html
Screenshot I just made in Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/orIZxEf.png
Interesting that they're doing this now, after they ruined the Android UI by making it all-white. I would very much like to see this integrated as an option in Android, instead of having to reply on third-party overlays with Substratum and hackish "team black out" versions of apps.
After reading those strange instructions I'm glad I just download whatever videos I want to watch and use *my* video viewer.
The kind of perverse "user interfaces" those morons impose on users is... I'm speechless. But users seem to like it. Reminds me of some crappy humiliation-flafor BDSM.
It doesn't work for me. Maybe because I have YouTube Red?
Unsure. :(
Where does the dark mode option actually appear in settings? Anyone have a screenshot?
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
To hell with Youtube, we have had enough of their nonsense.
Just go to www.worldstarhiphop.com .
Glad to see YouTube, added a PornHub Mode.
I'm amazed that a post which excludes directions for Linux can get through... but I guess I shouldn't be shocked really. I'm not new here.
Finally. A must have for HTPCs. BTTV dark mode on Twitch spoiled me. Netflix is dark by default. Amazon Prime I am looking at you. UI people PLEASE give a dark option.
Thats what it looks like, not that I have first hand knowledge of course, well not too often.
Aside from extensions like Stylish, it is handy if the website creators themselves offer a light/dark mode.. For instance, right here on /. why don't we have a mode like this? I would enable it in half a heartbeat!
On Linux it's ctrl + shift + i or F12 which works on all platforms.
This works on all websites. Make a bookmarklet with the following as the URL... :link, :link * { color: #0000EE !important } :visited, :visited * { color: #551A8B !important }'; if(document.createStyleSheet) { document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else { newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet'; newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } } )();
javascript: (function(){ var newSS, styles='* { background: black ! important; color: white !important }
And? The country keeps humming along. No harm, no foul really.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
No harm, no foul really.
The taxpayers paid ~$90M for Obama's golf games over eight years. If Trump continues play a game every five days, taxpayers will pay ~$120M for Trump's golf games in one year. Trump could easily outspend Obama, Bush II, Clinton and Bush I in four years at this rate.
There is also a secret way to get youtube red for free. If you replace the "you" in the url with "red" on any video.
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I'm not a fan of the new UI. The whole thing feels too open. Was adding gaps the only thing they could really think of?
If you want to revert back to the original layout, click the exit sign in the bottom right corner.
Sorry, didn't mean to offend hardcore Lynx users.
FF love --
Press F12, choose console (duh, who wants those 3 key complicated shortcuts, works in Chrome too BTW)
And the rest of the instructions remain same.
I had to think a moment before I realized the light switch I see on YouTube is from the "Magic Actions for YouTube" extension in Chrome. Seriously, "secret" dark mode? Lol.
....So this isn't a Rick Roll or a REALLY good troll.
The internet has made me cynical.
And what becomes possible, with the change to "dark mode"?
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
what would be better is:
Toggle Default Hide Chat on Live streams (should happen)
Toggle Default HD settings (could happen)
Toggle Default Annotations on/off all streams (will likely never return)
I get a scam warning when I pasted in the code.
Funny how that code "fPQ4jCL6EiE" looks like: Forcing Persistence (in) Q4 Justly Crushing Little (non) Sexy Internet Explorer.
Or is it just me. lol