[ahmetomer]

Hi, OP here:

Unfortunately, with a brisk urge to clean it all up, I hadn't paid attention to which extension it was that got my browser compromised; I had immediately removed all extensions, cleared browser data, stopped the sync, and uninstalled it altogether (for fear of getting further compromised).

What I can say is that I have tried a number of extensions for the purpose of making a website in dark theme, for ease of reading, which weren't as popular (in terms of rating & installs), and highly likely that those were malware.

That being said, I now hesitate to even install extensions that are selected by the Google Chrome editor team. I vibe-coded a simple extension myself to use as a "dark reader", and will probably avoid installing anything anymore. I got my fair share of damage.

[wt__]

Firstly, I really liked the way you wrote your blog post.

FWIW, I experimented with dark theme extensions (paid and free) and gave up on them after a while: it just all felt a bit too clunky and unreliable, the flashes of unstyled pages were annoying too.

I've now standardised (this is in Firefox) on a combination of:

- Reader mode

- a very simple extension that allows per-domain custom CSS…

- …and another that lets you disable Javascript completely per site (which adds a bit of security, generally improves the experience, including the side effect of removing cookie popups.)