What does HackerNews think of stylus?

I use Stylus for injecting CSS: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

From the OP, there's also StyleBot: https://stylebot.dev/

Boy do I have good news [1] for you.

[1]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

Sure! I've cleaned up the CSS a little bit since it was originally only for private use, and published it under CC0 at https://userstyles.world/style/3825/hacker-news-underlines-c... . You should be able to use it with an extension like Stylus[0].

[0] https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/#readme

This is more easily, faster and better done as a user stylesheet:

  a {
      color: blue !important;
      text-decoration: underline !important;
      text-decoration-style: solid !important;
      text-decoration-color: blue !important;
  }

(Unfortunately, extensions like Stylus <https://github.com/openstyles/stylus> don’t handle user stylesheet priorities correctly: !important in a user stylesheet should override absolutely all site stylesheets, including inline style attributes. But because of lousy technical limitations, they load stylesheets at the site priority rather than the user priority. But then, what you presented doesn’t conquer a site !important spec anyway. See https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-cascade#origin for a really good explanation of all this stuff.)

That github page links to the dodgy extension "Stylish".

The better one is called Stylus. The main difference being "Any and all analytics, telemetry, and data-collection have been removed completely. We'd rather not know what you're up to."

https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

> (The end user should apply their own CSS if wanted;

I still remember the time when user styles were a first class feature built into all browsers. Hell, that 'C' in CSS - "Cascading" - was always there to allow styles to enhance/override prior styles, including allowing the user to override website's styling. Back before web designers ruined everything by making every web page into its own special snowflake, people thought users would have one or two default CSS sheets to choose from and apply to any webpage, the way we today think about "dark mode".

These days, we have to resort to using browser extensions. A well-known one is Stylus [0][1]. In a way, it's much better than old built-in user styles. But then, it's not built in. Still, it's a nice way to fix up some of the frequently visited websites.

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[0] - https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

[1] - Mind the name, it's "Stylus", not "Stylish" - the latter used to be popular, but then it sold out and become another peace of surveillance capitalism detritus. Stylus is a GPLv3 fork of Stylish with data collection removed.

A good tool for creating custom styles is Stylus[0]. It works as an extension for Chrome or Firefox.

[0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

You can probably do the No Style thing automatically with Stylus:

https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/

And also by non-malware Stylish fork, a thing to modify CSS in the browser: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/

Install Stylus https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/ (and fall in love with it), then install a style (e.g. https://userstyles.org/styles/97106/ ) or write your own.