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I love Librewolf, I just can't work for hours using a browser that has dark mode disabled in order to preserve its privacy features.
Because the dark mode that's built into Firefox and other browsers sends requests to websites that can identify you. If you want dark mode on Librewolf, do as the devs recommend and get Dark Reader, as that's clientside and doesn't identify you, and works with pretty much every website, including ones that don't offer a dark version.
I use regular Firefox, and I have the default dark mode disabled and Dark Reader installed. I don't need to ask permission from websites to use dark mode any more than I need to ask Google for permission to block their ads.
What requests? I though that only information that the browser gives to website regarding dark theme is that your
preferred-color-schemeis nowdark.Yes, that's one of the data points they use to fingerprint you. They only need several to get a reliable idea of who you are as you move from site to site.