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What Is a Dickover?
- LeoPanthera 5mo agoDoes big tech understand consent? [ ] Yes [ ] Maybe later
- encrypted_bird 5mo agoThey understand. They do not care.
- parpfish 5mo agoDo you LOVE this app? [ ] Yes, and obviously I want to leave this app I like to write a review RIGHT NOW [ ] I'm a mean bad person.
- JKCalhoun 5mo ago[flagged]
- king_zee 5mo agoMost people don't care about this and they should, I have the google analytics import on my business endeavors, but why would I put it into a blog? Why subject both myself and my poor readers to yet another tentacle to suck our interaction into its googolplex of data. I hope all webdevs start caring more. On that same note, I hope all webdevs stop using substack, it's so trivial nowadays to make and style your own blog however you want, why take the even lazier route of giving substack control over everything
- JKCalhoun 5mo agoSo, here on HN, some years back, when I said as much (about my blog having no analytics, etc.) I was asked why did I even blog? I've always thought of blogging as just writing a note, dropping it in a bottle and tossing it. No idea what happens to it once I post it.
- bookofjoe 5mo agoI've always considered mine a 21st century Commonplace book/journal mashup. Write it/post it/move on...
- tardedmeme 5mo agoI suspect two reasons. First, it's not easy to make your own blog - what are you thinking of here - self hosted wordpress, which will surely get hacked? If you use a service like WPEngine, that's no better than using substack. Second, Google only surfaces the big platforms any more.
- king_zee 5mo agoI'm talking about developers specifically. I understand if non-tech people would rather delegate all of it to a third-party like substack or medium, but as a dev, a blog is about the next hard thing you could make after a to-do app, especially post-AI. As for your second point you're probably right, it depends on what your intention is with your blog. I wouldn't mind having thousands of people read mine, but I personally think it's eventual as long as you're a good writer and hang out in relevant communities, but I guess it makes sense from an SEO pov.
- echelon 5mo agoGruber's usually too much of a walking Apple ad for my taste, but I love this. We need to define the things we hate. Give them words. Use the words as weapons. I've been thinking about this a lot recently with "watermarks" of the statistical and non-visible kind used to track image creators. (Google embedding "this image is AI but also here's the user ID".) I've been thinking that practice needs a new word too. It's not watermarking, it's signals-math based tracking, so maybe sigtracked. That might not sound gross enough though.
- happytoexplain 5mo agoI find the characterisation of his Apple praise fascinating. It's really not that zealous, unless you hate Apple (which is fine). I think this image of him speaks more of the prominence of the Apple superfan image in popular culture than the actual reality of his position.
- murderfs 5mo agoIt isn't anymore, but if you go back a decade or two, it really was that zealous. He really did used to blindly defend Apple (e.g. things like this: https://daringfireball.net/2006/09/open_challenge https://daringfireball.net/2006/09/open_challenge), but I think he's grown more skeptical of Apple lately.
- dfxm12 5mo agoI don't want to split hairs over what constitutes as overzealous, but I will say that Apple ~20 years ago earned more praise than Apple does today. This is probably reflected in the writing.
- y1n0 5mo agoIt's more than just defining things. It's ridiculing them.
- hootz 5mo agoDO YOU CONSENT WITH OUR TRACKING COOKIES POLICY? [YES, I DO, THE IMPORTANT TRACKING ONES] [YES, I DO, ALL OF THEM] ⁿᵒ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜˡᵒˢᵉ ᵈᶦᶜᵏᵒᵛᵉʳ
- internet2000 5mo agoThanks, Europe!
- tardedmeme 5mo agoYep. Without Europe, we'd have no idea which websites were trying to sell us out to the highest bidder.
- rubyfan 5mo agoSurprise, they all are!
- dnnddidiej 5mo agoEurope is why you have CCPA
- Y-bar 5mo agoWell… Europe do require the accept and deny options to both be equally visible and accessible, see for example this week-old court ruling: > Administrative Court (BVwG), thereby upholding a decision made by the Austrian Data Protection Authority in 2024. Specifically, the ORF must ensure that the buttons to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ tracking cookies are designed equally so that visitors are not tricked into agreeing. https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-success-orfat-must-correct-misleading-cookie-banner https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-success-orfat-must-correct-misleadin...
- ragebol 5mo agoThis whole cookie dickover concept is malicious compliance. The goal was: no tracking but ask consent if you must ("who would do this, that would be super annoying"). Except every website decided they'd rather annoy everyone.
- cocacola1 5mo agoNever thought to call them dickovers before, but it’s apt. At a certain point, I noticed my finger reflexively hitting the ESC key because that usually dismisses a lot of them.
- Brendinooo 5mo agoThe Escape key's effect in the linked article was a delightful detail.
- freetime2 5mo agoThank you, I got a good laugh out of that. My experience was probably exactly as intended. Click on the "What is a dickover?" link trying to come up with things that it might be. And a brief moment after the page loaded (this little pause is crucial) I am hit in the face with a big annoying popup saying "This is a Dickover" followed by immediate understanding. Now at least I know what to call it the next time I visit Substack.
- DonHopkins 5mo agoI was afraid it would be a new kind of henway.
- danaris 5mo ago...You thought a dickover would be about three pounds?
- freetime2 5mo agoI actually had a similar thought - something along the lines of this gag from Spies Like Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35quNI5ed_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35quNI5ed_k
- DonHopkins 5mo agoAt least you didn't get misgendered like Zack Mama (aka Monica). https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tH0DWrD0_hE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tH0DWrD0_hE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlLxZr5g5is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlLxZr5g5is
- derwiki 5mo agoWoooah “henway” gives me flashbacks to the Castle of Dr Brain in the early 90s
- CyberDildonics 5mo agoYou didn't immediately realize it was someone making up nonsense for clicks?
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- chrsw 5mo agoI guess the entitlement comes from looking at it from the other way: my employer pays me a lot for my attention. I've accepted the arrangement so now I pay attention to their problems. If you want me to pay attention to your problem, there has to be something in it for me. I've been wondering how we can use AI to clean up websites before they hit our eyes. If AI is as good as they say it is, surely it can clean up dickovers. If someone is allowed to shove something in front of my face should I not be allowed to make them invisible?
- avaer 5mo ago> If someone is allowed to shove something in front of my face should I not be allowed to make them invisible? Yes, I'm 100% on the adblock train. Local AI adblock sounds like a great solution. Then maybe dickovers will go away when the market realizes they don't work. That's the only way. What won't help is complaining that the largely free products we get don't work the way we want them to.
- pooploop64 5mo ago>What won't help is complaining that the largely free products we get don't work the way we want them to. This makes no sense and seems bad-faith on multiple levels.
- avaer 5mo agoOn the contrary, I'm assuming good faith on the part of those who implement these "dark" patterns. They're done for a reason, and that reason is not pure evil from their perspective.
- chrsw 5mo agoYeah this is really bad. Firefox + uBlock Origin + Filters cleans a lot of these dickovers. Some seem to slip through the cracks. There's a never ending fight between bad websites and the warriors trying to protect our attention.
- analogpixel 5mo agoMaybe if people don't like dickovers, paywalls, and all the other bad patterns , they should stop submitting and voting them up.
- michaelt 5mo agoI have a theory that about 97% of developers and managers completed the cookie consent (or whatever) on their own product 5 years ago and hence never see it again, and they have no idea how bad the experience for new customers actually is. So the developers and bosses all think they're doing a great job and they've got a carefully curated homepage, even though the regular users get a cloudflare captcha, then a cookie modal, then a newsletter modal, then an install-our-app modal, all blocking their access to the 'buy product' button.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoI wonder if cloudflare is wise enough to always skip captchas from IP addresses it detects are associated with that website's owners.
- LeoPanthera 5mo agoAlways test your website in a private window.
- JKCalhoun 5mo agoI have a theory that they don't care what customers think.
- kcplate 5mo agoOh we care, but when it comes to cookie dickovers, we care more about making the corporate lawyers happy. I’ll admit that I definitely like collecting my paycheck much more than I worry about customer annoyance at acknowledging a cookie policy. Some hills ain't worth dying on.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoOr your company could respect its users and only use cookies for essential site functions. Then you don't need a dickover.
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- rvz 5mo agoI'm sorry but this is such a stupid name. Where did the author get this name from? Why would I say that in front of any female colleage or any non-technical layman? We already have a name for this and it is a "popup". Which sounds better? "Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover" Be honest.
- Cockbrand 5mo ago> "Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover" > Be honest. The latter definitely is the more honest answer.
- rvz 5mo agoThank you for "definitely" not being honest.
- bgun 5mo agoI agree, but being mildly offensive is kind of the point: makes it more memorable, and clearly differentiated from “popup” which is too broad and has many valid uses in an interface. Dickovers never have a valid reason to exist.
- rvz 5mo ago> makes it more memorable, and clearly differentiated from “popup” which is too broad and has many valid uses in an interface. Dickovers never have a valid reason to exist. This is hardly convincing. The author even describes it as a "popup" or a "popover" which is already descriptive enough without further explanation. It is just an "unwanted popup" or "unwanted popover". The fact he brought up a definition of that word after mentioning "popover", just made the need for "d*ckover" uneccessarily redundant. It may work with 30 people in tech, but will not work on TV. "unwanted popup" or "unwanted popover" is better to say on TV than "d*ckover".
- jimbokun 5mo agoUnless it’s on cable.
- abrowne 5mo agoAny site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.
- userbinator 5mo agoDid anyone else think this was a clever keming pun? Fortunately, for those sites where either JS is required for the content or to remove the dickover, browsers still have an Inspect Element tool that makes deleting this and other annoyances not too difficult and rather cathartic.
- kstrauser 5mo agoSafari’s “Hide Distracting Items” feature is one big reason I never use Chrome.
- fragmede 5mo agoDon't tell anybody, but Chrome engineers managed to sneak in reader mode via Gemini.
- MajorTakeaway 5mo agoFirst time I saw the lesser case version of dickover I thought it said clickover.
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- bayesnet 5mo agoThe only surprising thing about the Tom’s Hardware example was that John Gruber evidently does not use an adblocker
- TheTon 5mo agoLook closer. I doubt he uses Chrome regularly, I think he's using it to write this article precisely because he has no extensions installed in it.
- danw1979 5mo agoAs a long time DF reader I can assure you that John does not use Chrome to browse the world wide web. You are almost certainly correct in saying he is using it to illustrate his point because Chrome is engineered to be part of the internet advertising complex that commits so many of these crimes against design.
- pooploop64 5mo agoFanboys Annoyances List for Ublock. Install it on your family's computers when they aren't looking. It aims to filter ALL this crap.
- skybrian 5mo agoDid you know that a Substack's author can turn the annoying popup off? Go to dashboard -> settings, and then it's "Enable subscribe prompts on post page" under "Growth." It's the first thing I did. Recommended.
- dangus 5mo agoWe all know why they keep it on. I’m just kind of surprised that it works to convert people. Or…maybe it doesn’t? Some of these things that we have are just common practices that owners of websites do that are seemingly done automatically without much thought to the experience.
- dnnddidiej 5mo agoI sort of make an exception for that popup. I.e. I don't mind seeing it. It's the tax to get good free content. Medium forcing you to log in is too much tho.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoI don't at all mind a link on the page that directs me to a subscription or notification signup. If I get a popup, I'm pretty likely to just close the page, especially if I'm on mobile where closing them is more trouble.
- Gormo 5mo agoStill not enough to convince me to read Substack blogs with anything other than my RSS reader.
- JoshTriplett 5mo ago> They’re popovers, but dickheaded. So they're popovers. Seriously. I've never seen a popover used for any legitimate purpose. If it was the content the user wanted, you can put it in the page where it goes.
- JKCalhoun 5mo agoOnly time… I added a popover [1] in order to get a user click so I could enable sound. I know, I know, but it's a game site. It needs sound! [2] [1] https://mooncraft2000.com https://mooncraft2000.com [2] Damn, I just tried my site again and a recent Safari has blocked my weak attempt to force sound.
- paradoxyl 5mo ago"Login with your Google or some other globalist public-private tyrannical spyware trash" is the most common "dickover" around.
- freediver 5mo agoOne of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John. [1] https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb
- hootz 5mo agoOh, Vlad is here. Thanks for Kagi, and spread these thanks to all Kagi employees too! Please adopt dickover.
- buggy6257 5mo agoFYI it took me 3 clicks of “next” to hit a page with a cookie dickover. Might need to tweak the filter.
- freediver 5mo agoFlag it please, want to think you were unlocky/page added it after inclusion. It is still a manual effort to verify them, mistakes happen. Definetely not intended.
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- srcreigh 5mo agoCould you or someone working on this make it easier to share the original link for a small web post? It’s difficult to the point of making me think you’re trying to force me to share the Kagi version of the url.
- DavideNL 5mo agoLeft of the "Share" button there's a little arrow (pointing to the upper right) which opens to the original url... Right click it to share / copy.
- esperent 5mo agoI hope you make an exception for this specific page.
- andai 5mo agoI explicitly disable these on Substack but it adds them to my posts anyway. I'm not sure if that's a bug or the thing working as intended, but it was enough to make me stop using it. I don't want to do that to my readers.
- lostlogin 5mo agoSubstack’s dubious practices aren’t as bad as their dubious politics. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...
- jpttsn 5mo agoThanks for linking to a cookie banner
- lostlogin 5mo agoYou don’t see the article?
- supriyo-biswas 5mo agoIt's kinda hilarious that on an article about said "dickovers", the page has one of these consuming 80% of the screen real estate: https://files.catbox.moe/ztjg15.png https://files.catbox.moe/ztjg15.png
- lostlogin 5mo agoI don’t get one. Not sure if that’s a mobile safari or a blocker or what.
- supriyo-biswas 5mo agoThis is on Firefox/Linux, but I’ve also seen it on Chrome/Windows, and Safari/Mac.
- -warren 5mo agoDickovers are annoying -- tell me, what's your solution? For me, a combination of a) not patronizing these sites, but when I have to b) some ad blockers help. Nothing seems to work well though.
- pennomi 5mo agoI don’t know if there’s a personal solution to this but the societal solution is to penalize dickovers at the SEO level.
- RyanOD 5mo agoI have a firm rule of leaving any website where I run into this behavior. No exceptions.
- rixed 5mo agoMy personnal solution to this is CTRL+W.
- danw1979 5mo agoAuto reader mode in mobile safari for any site I recognise having read previously that has dickovers, cookie bars, poor typography or any other design issue that distracts me from the content. e.g. science.org - linked frequently from HN and now every time I click a link to it, I’m dropped into a perfectly readable, distraction free view of the content.
- annoyingnoob 5mo agoThe web needs more 'Get Bent' buttons.
- nicechianti 5mo ago[dead]
- albert_e 5mo agoNeed of the hour : Browser personalization tools or extensions ... A combination of User stylesheet (stylus) or User scripts (greasemonkey) -- superpowered by AI models that can let users target screen elements and shape webpage display and behavior without having to manually deal with precise DOM elements or CSS JS syntax Best useful tweaks could become part of a curated list like uOrigin ad block lists
- asmodeuslucifer 5mo agoIn a similar vein, If I had to explain what javascript was to someone non-technical I would say "you know all that crap that covers up a web site you are trying to look at? That's javascript." dickover n. : 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
- throwaway81523 5mo agoI've used the politer term "pie" for these things, since they are usually thrown in the user's face like a pie, after the normal screen has been shown for a few seconds. In the old days, JS allowed window.open() which would create a new window on the user's sceren. That naturally was abused horribly, leading to pop-up-blocker extensions and then built-in browser permissions. We need the same thing for pies/dickovers, which are at root a workaround to the presence of pop-up blocking. My first reaction to "dickover" was that it sounded like another Marion Zimmer Bradley fantasy fiction series...
- bitwize 5mo ago> My first reaction to "dickover" was that it sounded like another Marion Zimmer Bradley fantasy fiction series... That hits way more darkly given what has come out about Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband...
- throwaway81523 5mo agoYep. Or maybe it could be a renaming of the existing series.
- account42 5mo agoMaybe web browsers need a website mode where dynamic scripting first requires permission. You could allow scripts for a short time after page load to deal with pages where that is needed to show any content.
- RyanOD 5mo agoI hate this new web behavior and leave sites immediately whenever I run into it.
- thih9 5mo ago> Cookie permissions are unnecessary. Signing up for an email newsletter is unnecessary. They are necessary, as in: without them the creator perhaps wouldn’t be able to justify running the website. As long as users visit websites with poor ux and show no preference versus websites with good ux, there will reliably be websites with poor ux.
- barnabee 5mo agoRunning the website isn’t necessary. These people should try not running any websites for a bit. It was just fine when most websites were academic or hobby content, not businesses.
- CobrastanJorji 5mo agoI endorse this name because, once it's the standard name for this technique, people will have to use it in meetings when seriously proposing them, which makes it harder to seriously propose. "And this is our design for the Dickover." "Guys, I'm not sure we should Dickover the customers." "You know, when you say it that way...." Epilogue: six months later, the site is dead because they converted nobody to their newsletter.
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- Freak_NL 5mo agoWho are those people? Those perpetually amused folk who feel not a bit of rage when a dickover is slapped in their face, and for whom entering their e-mail address in the dickover is actually a thing they would seriously consider?
- clear-octopus 5mo ago[dead]
- crote 5mo agoSeriously. These days if there isn't a huge "close" button, I'll just press "Back" and find a different website.
- MarkSweep 5mo agoAnd a lot of the time pressing back will take you to some other article on the website instead of where you came from. Because the site used history.pushState in JavaScript to manipulate your history.
- nosioptar 5mo agoUnless I have no choice, I just close the tab when a dickover asks for my PII.
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- parpfish 5mo agoHe claims that dickovers aren't as bad as the dickbars, but I think they're equal. The dickover is a big, immediate distraction that you can't help but deal with. But the dickbar is insidious because you forget it's even there. You just get used to always seeing whatever banner is there and think it's just a permenant piece of the interface and you adapt to not having 25% of your viewport.
- Timwi 5mo ago> He claims that dickovers aren't as bad as the dickbars, but I think they're equal. Just for the record, the author says the exact opposite. Doesn't change your point though.
- jb1991 5mo agoI was thinking it would be nice if you could at least drag the popup out of the way so you could delay reading it while you first focus on what’s underneath. But then I realized, that would technically be a dick move.
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- bni 5mo agoIf you zoom websites to be able to read them, like I do. Then these are especially frustrating because I have to zoom out to find the close button. Its a chase every time, and sometimes I give up. How are these allowed to exist when there are the EU Web Accessibility Directive ?
- tosti 5mo agoHN itself is terrible with UI scale >1.0 I keep scrolling horizontally just to read the text.
- out_of_protocol 5mo agoOn Android, opera browser has text-wrap which fits text into screen on any zooom level. Dunno how people live without this feature
- relistan 5mo agoThis is now the word
- junto 5mo agoTalking of dark patterns I’ve noticed that many site “accidentally” have the bottom aligned cookie consent banner “break” on mobile Safari, such that the buttons are arranged such that “Accept All” is the only button you can press because the “Deny All” or “Customize” go out of viewport when you go to click on them. This might be related to how mobile Safari changes the bottom bar as you move to click the button. I often have this with the NYT Wordle game. Even though I use pi-hole to block ads, it’s still annoying.
- adrian_b 5mo agoFor me the fact that dickovers are possible is a bug in all JavaScript interpreters. In my opinion, any decent browser should make impossible both dickovers and also other related hostile actions, like the possibility for a Web page to modify the right-click menu or to prevent text selection. Unfortunately completely disabling scripts is rarely a solution, because many sites do not work at all. But the kind of actions mentioned above never serve a useful purpose for the user, so they should be ineffective and their should be no way for the hostile site to determine whether they work or no. Modal windows may sometimes be useful in applications that are controlled by myself, but it should always be possible to override them in externally-controlled applications, like when browsing Internet sites.
- mikepurvis 5mo agoGenuine question, what is it that the JS implementation or DOM or anything the in the browser can do to permit desired modal popover content like dropdown menus and tooltips and floating nav bars while somehow preventing dickovers?
- adrian_b 5mo agoLike I have said, in a browser there should not exist truly modal windows. The cases when modal windows are used abusively are far more numerous than the cases when they are useful. Perhaps there should be a way to warn the user when moving the focus from a window that is supposed to be modal, but if the user insists it should be possible to disregard that a window is intended to be modal. Also, it should be possible for the user to move any window as desired. It should not have been possible for windows to move on their own and to prevent the user from moving them. A script should also not be able to move the mouse cursor or any other kind of cursor. A browser must always treat a script as potentially hostile, so all these facilities that can be used by a script to mess with the browser GUI should never have existed.
- watusername 5mo agoCSS is what allows dickovers to work, not JS, and pure-CSS dickovers are possible [0] :P [0]: https://hunzaboy.github.io/Light-Modal https://hunzaboy.github.io/Light-Modal
- amelius 5mo agoSolution: reader mode.
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- OrangeMusic 5mo agoThis is an excellent bookmarklet to have: ``` javascript:(function()%7B let i%2C elements %3D document.querySelectorAll('body *')%3B for (i %3D 0%3B i < elements.length%3B i%2B%2B) %7B if(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position %3D%3D%3D 'fixed' %7C%7C getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position %3D%3D%3D 'sticky')%7B elements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B %7D %7D %7D)() ``` Sometimes, this one is needed to fix scrolling after using the previous one: ``` javascript:var r="html,body{overflow:auto !important;}"; var s=document.createElement("style"); s.type="text/css"; s.appendChild(document.createTextNode(r)); document.body.appendChild(s); void 0; ```
- kleiba2 5mo ago> asking the user to accept “cookies” [...] or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about. Oh, I absolutely care about cookies and whenever I have the option I do not allow the website to place them. That said, I would much prefer an architecture where I express that once in a browser setting and the browser relays that information on to any website somewhere in the background.
- CrzyLngPwd 5mo agoHe nailed it. But please increase the font size.
- penguin_booze 5mo agoNo need - it's already at dicksize.
- danhite 5mo agoIn case you actually mean you want DF website font-size increased, Gruber actually has a page for that as a site-wide setting ... https://daringfireball.net/preferences/ https://daringfireball.net/preferences/
- ifh-hn 5mo agoI block a lot of these with ublock.
- flintenmuschi 5mo ago[dead]
- DivingForGold 5mo agoYou can prevent the loading of most pop ups and many nag screens and cookie demands by simply having a browser configured with an "add-on" that allows you to toggle of and toggle on javascript. There are several add-ons available. Alternatively, you have another browser with javascript permanently disabled and keep it minimized in the tray, or in the background. A lot of websites that demand subscriptions, post nagscreens or use other blocks whereby the website can be read by simply toggling off javascript. Javascript in websites has become what corporations use to manipulate & control us and do things like post nag screens & demand subscriptions. When I run across websites that demand javascript before they will load I just shitcan them and eliminate them from viewing forever.
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- 60secs 5mo agoIf you show me a modal dialogue, there better be a literal fire.
- docmars 5mo agoThis is pure cinema. I'm glad he's using his platform to call this out, it's rampant! I usually just toggle Firefox's reading mode whenever a dickover like this pops up and they magically go away, allowing me to continue reading in peace.
- newaccountman2 5mo agofor the first 2m, I read that as "dick-lover", and I was like "why would you call it that..."
- Henchman21 5mo agoSometimes I read something and think “wow a lot of problems in the world would be fixed if people would take just a moment to not be assholes”
- hmstx 5mo ago> But some sneaky, cowardly bastards sucker-punch you with their dickbars only after you have started reading, and begin to scroll down the page. Yeah, about that, news websites who want to sell me a subscription. I appreciate what you are trying to do, but can you please wait until I've read at least one or two sentences (let alone the short preview of your paywalled articles) BEFORE you dickoverslap me to consider subscribing? By the time the thing comes up, I haven't even been able to tell whether your writer can form a coherent sentence. "Subscribe PLZ" at that point will make sure I barely even consider staying for the rest of it.
- fellowniusmonk 5mo agoStrava recently introduced this, if you screenshot an activity page it generates a popup that prevents you from screengrab scrolling. They've made it useless for quick manual sharing with llm.
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- make3 5mo agoAren't cookie dickovers mandatory in the EU?