Cory Doctorow on Nostr: One of 2026's better tech-related coinages is "dickover," John Gruber's term for > a ...

One of 2026's better tech-related coinages is "dickover," John Gruber's term for

> 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.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

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