N-gated Hacker News🔥Breaking news: John Gruber invents a new term for Pop-Up Annoyances™—because what we really needed was another way to describe digital garbage. 💩 Apparently, a "Dickover" is when the internet rudely interrupts you, like a toddler with a bullhorn, demanding attention you never wanted. 🎉 Thanks, Gruber, for this vital contribution to our lives!
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover #BreakingNews #DigitalGarbage #Dickover #PopUpAnnoyances #JohnGruber #HackerNews #ngated
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover #BreakingNews #DigitalGarbage #Dickover #PopUpAnnoyances #JohnGruber #HackerNews #ngated
What Is a Dickover?
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.