Most people that I know that prefer dark mode (myself included) prefer it regardless of sunlight or ambient lighting.
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I used to think I am like this, until I noticed, in bright daylight readability is way way better in light mode. So nowdays I switch depending on the light settings (and curse all the apps who do not follow the OS settings, where I have to do it manually).
In my experience that's because most users run their monitors on 100% brightness instead of turning that down. I prefer light mode unless it's really dark.
I suspect a lot of the comfort preferences come from there.
The average monitor has a brightness level equivalent to screaming in a study room, and a color calibration that assumes fluorescent office lighting.
For me it’s light themes all the way. I rather turn the brightness down than switch to dark mode.
It has to be really bright before I will switch my ebook app or feed reader to black on white instead of white on black.
At a certain point, white text on black just isn’t readable but the inverse is somehow.
I prefer dark mode for image-heavy content and coding, and light mode for long amounts of natural language text, regardless of time of day.
Conversely, I prefer light mode regardless of sunlight.