Mildly Infuriating

I haven't read someone answering why now is so common. I'm not a product designer or something similar, but our brain evolved to process the visual inputs over other senses. If a product have integrated lights, most of the customers will prefer them instead of products without lights.

So basically is just a sale point, and as many here already told, many of them are unnecessary.

Off-topic but the other day someone just complained that he's missing LEDs on his mobile phone LoL

Blue LEDs can trigger migraines in us poor saps who are photosensitive, so them being all over the place has been a ton of fun, let me tell you.

I got reddish-brown tints for my glasses and it’s been a lifesaver.

I buy these really cool magnetic charging cables. You put an adapter in the charging phone port and the cable just attaches itself.

The only problem is that they have these bright blue LEDs around the end. And on top of that, the LEDs are coated with silicone so you can't even take a sharpie to them.

Gaffers Tape may be the best thing ever invented. Next to zip ties and carbonara. I put some on all the little shitty LEDs in my room. It's pitch black in here right now.

That shit sucks. When blue LEDs became a thing all sorts of electronics adopted them and they were effin everywehre.

This makes you appreciate professional equipment which is less likely to have those ridiculously bright ones. Lenovo usually have pretty discrete orange LEDs on their professional equipment. The large professional Dell monitor I use at work, while fitted with a white LED, has a very dim one.

I finally gave up and just started sleeping with a mask over my eyes. I can't stand to have any light at all, either.

My fan automatically turns off its LEDs after about 10 seconds. Good design FTW.

I got a pack of static cling ND gels and I cut them down and stack them on displays or small LED's that are too bright. They've been really helpful for things that you don't want to completely block with electrical tape, like an alarm clock.

I hate these, too. I decided to put a compact computer in our bedroom (already a bad plan, I know) to quickly check the security camera at night (I rolled my own, no phone app). I plugged in a mouse I had laying around. I discovered the first night when this particular mouse does not have its custom drivers installed (gimme a break, this is Raspbian not Windows!), it freaking blinks, and in the dead of night it's as bright as a flashlight. Blink. Blink. All night long. I never noticed before because, wackily enough, I rarely compute in complete darkness.

I also have a USB desk fan I thought I might run at night and yes, it has blinky lights when charging. F that, I bought an old Caframo Dragonfly instead... best compact fan ever made, first produced in the 1950s.

its probably there because those leds are dirt cheap and the companies just want as much as possible to advertise about it

Remember when orange was a novelty led color? I can hear the floppy drive buzzing when I see one of the old chunky LEDs in my junk box

I have put black tape on my gamepad, on the led of pc cases, montor power button led, removed led from pc case fans, black skin on inside of transparent case panel. MOST annoying is some of them can't be turned off so you have to strip them out.

I am so happy with my new keyboard in every way apart from the fact that the num pad light etc. is blue and SO BRIGHT to the point where it is almost blinding to look at directly from above, and it lights up my ceiling blue at night, like pointing a torch. I guess it's a sign of quality or whatever but I think it is a tad unnecessary to be that bright. I may end up covering it with a few layers of transparent/tinted tape.