Black and White

Turns black and white vision on

Black and White Chrome Extension - Experience Simplified Web Browsing

"Black and White" is a Chrome extension that simplifies your web browsing experience. When activated, it removes borders, outlines, background colors, text colors, box shadows, and text shadows. This helps identify the information hierarchy in your web design and ensures adherence to a coherent visual grid. With reduced visual noise, it lets you comprehend the typographic structure of any web page with ease.

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Extension stats

By: https://jannesmeyer.com

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.43

(21)

Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-03-09)

Creation date: 2015-03-09

Permissions:

activeTab

Size: 9.66K

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 13,089 ▲ 22

Other rankings

#6754 in Developer Tools ▲ 88

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps users focus by reducing distractions from colorful ads and thumbnails
Effective for reading and printing web pages in black and white
Simple and secure functionality

Cons

Does not follow best practices for Chrome extensions which may lead to future support issues
Lacks a default option for applying black and white mode on chosen websites
Background removal is not effective, making some text unreadable

Most mentioned

Needs a feature to turn on black and white by default on selected websites
Requires user interaction each time a new page is loaded
A dark mode option with a completely black background and white text is desired

User reviews

This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions. I tried many solutions, and in the end, installing this new version resolved the issue: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/white-and-black/kolnojcfgcbflebnmjkmflfjimdiackk

tao mt, 2024-09-30

Needs to remove the background too, otherwise websites with a texture background and a white box with text, with the white box removed, become unreadable. Similar problem happen with black mode, text becomes black but background remain black. A dark mode would be awesome; make background black, and all text white. Also needs a feature to turn it on by default on chosen websites as other user suggested. I tried it on some newspapers, but since some graphs were colored, become unreadable.

7, 2023-09-15

Much needed app for people who would like to enter monk mode, cutting off all the distractions

Jyotiraj, 2023-01-06

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Extension safety

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Black and White does not require any sensitive permissions.

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