hey so I actually had looked into this previously (about the meta tags) and forgot. but it doesn't seem like the meta tags will stop dark mode from fucking with the colors, it will only allow sites to define light/dark colors that browser will selectively apply. is this understanding incorrect?
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I haven't verified it, but I have noticed that Brave only does the "darkmode" in cases where it thinks it's needed. So my guess was the meta tags, or it has some smartness in checking pixels?
my guess is its checking pixels but could be wrong, i'm no expert. if you allowed websites to turn off dark mode by adding a meta tag it would allow websites to override users preference to see it in dark mode.