OMG!!!
Thank you so much, i have a new Dell G3 gaming laptop! and this has been killing my eyes for days because i can't find the button everyone is talking about.....i spoke to dell too and i have no idea what they did but clearly it didn't help! i finally solved this problem (*sob*)
Just wanted to update this thread since I have been dealing with this auto dimming/brightening (adaptive brightness) issue for 3 weeks since getting a Dell Inspiron 7786 laptop. It was driving me absolutely crazy! After researching it myself and then going back and forth with Dell support for almost a month, the solution that finally fixed this annoying issue was to enter the BIOS (restart computer and press F2 at startup), click the Video dropdown menu and disable the "Dynamic Backlight Control". This finally fixed the problem for me and hope it can help others.