What does this save, like a milliwatt per year? One of the stupidest things I have ever seen.
Sending the JavaScript to do this literally uses more electricity than this saves.
This is classic. Corpos that are the biggest polluters are also the ones that push hardest on the idea of “carbon footprint”
The more they can convince people that climate change is their fault, the less likely people vote for a government that will regulate the corpos
It’s only going to save power if you’re using an oled, since for most lcd screens the backlight is on whether you display black or white.
All my websites are jet black, and the black is only really black on my phone which has an oled screen.
Either way, it’s just greenwashing. These companies are only pretending to give a crap so they can get brownie points with people who can’t see what they’re doing.
Most lcds take a tiny bit of current to darken a pixel I think. The ground state would be white and power is used to get the lcd in the state where it changes the lights polarization to get it blocked by the polarization filter in front of it
I assume that would depend on the polarization of the screen. I wonder which is more common?
This is the most pathetic attempt at greenwashing I have ever seen.
Came here to say that. So clearly doesn’t change anything (unless you are on a cellphone or have an expensive OLED computer screen)
Fuck nestle
Not all phones; just ones with OLED screens.
CRTs will also save power as they have to shoot fewer phosphors, but that’s not really relevant today.
Contribute even more by closing the browser and not buying anything from this shithole of a company.
I wish it was that easy, but nestle has taken almost 80% of global middleman positions in the food market, they have become a pseudo monopoly in the food industry.
Everywhere you look end stage capitalism is enshittifying itself. The neolibs, having insisted that There Is No Alternative, are confronted with their system in full and manifest self destruction.
Greenwashing bullshit.
Stupid because it makes zero difference for any screen that uses a backlight, which is most of them. And then they could just set dark mode as the default if it actually mattered, which it doesn’t. You can be stupid, but to be really stupid takes a corpo like Nestle.
For oleds, it makes a difference and not an insignificant number of smartphones today use OLED screens.
However, if the microwatt-hour of battery saved by browsing a shitty website of a shitty company for a few minutes saves the planet is another story…
Whatever gets saved will be burned up by their megabytes of JS running in the background collecting single point of data they possibly can
Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t make that much difference on OLEDs. The thing about OLED is that different diodes consume different amounts of energy. Blue diode requires the most energy, green diode requires about the same amount of energy as the red one, but there are more green diodes in pentile screen.
Thus the only energy saving option is a dark red background. And no one is using it. It will also look like shit in most cases.
Here’s a paper which shows that dark grey background basically consumes twice as much energy as dark red one https://library.imaging.org/admin/apis/public/api/ist/website/downloadArticle/cic/26/1/art00005
