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Block Superwhite Abuse

by Lucy Sweet · Accessibility
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Clamps HDR page content to standard brightness, neutralizing blinding 'superwhite' avatars, images and videos on HDR displays.

Users
7
−1 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#218K
#182K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 21 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 months
048Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 7 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 months
001Jul 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Block Superwhite Abuse

People have started uploading "superwhite" profile pictures and images — tiny HDR videos and HDR AVIF files crafted to render far brighter than white on HDR displays (recent MacBooks, iPhones and HDR monitors). Somewhere between distracting and physically painful, they follow you around every comment thread they appear in. This extension neutralizes them. It applies the CSS property dynamic-range-limit: standard to every page, capping all content at standard-dynamic-range brightness. HDR abuse renders as ordinary white. Normal (SDR) content — which is virtually everything — is pixel-for-pixel unaffected, so there are no false positives, ever. Notable properties: • No JavaScript. The entire extension is one static stylesheet. • Collects nothing, stores nothing, contacts no servers. • Works in every frame, and reaches shadow-DOM UIs (Reddit, YouTube) through CSS inheritance. • Legitimate HDR photos and videos still display — just at standard brightness. Free and open source: https://github.com/intUnderflow/block-superwhite-abuse

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days−1−12.5%00.00

Version history

1 versions recorded
1.0.020 Jul 2026

Details

Category
Accessibility
First seen
20 Jul 2026
Size
11 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
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Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2

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