There is an on-going issue with hyperlinks within PDF files being highlighted (essentially blue boxes around all names) excessively. This makes reading particularly difficult.

It has been reported multiple times:

1.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/480684/#:~:text=This is way too distracting and it makes no sense why we can't disable it

2.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/124272/pdf-reader-themes-cross-reference-link-highlight-colours#latest

3.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/493526#:~:text=dark PDF background the default blueish citation color (as%20depicted%20in%20the%20accompanying%20screenshots)%20becomes%20suddenly%20distracting

4.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/131248/turn-off-link-highlighting#:~:text=The yellow is a manual highlight, where as the blue are automatic highlights of links






There are users who have also given up using the PDF reader due to it being so distracting.

5.
https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/1vhxcf3/how_to_get_rid_of_automatic_highlighting_for/#:~:text=No, I just stopped using it altogether








The issue has become troublesome enough that a user, Jkroes, has developed a plugin to try to tackle the issue:

6.
https://github.com/jkroes/zotero-hide-citation-highlights





The issue makes PDFs in dark mode almost unreadable, and it is an accessibility issue for users with sight concerns. Can this issue be a priority to get sorted, please?