dickover
dickover noun: a pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page presenting the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, and unavoidable interaction.
Noun
dickover (plural dickovers)
- A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page presenting the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, and unavoidable interaction.
- 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; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app...2026 May 29, John Gruber, “What Is a Dickover?”, in Daring Fireball
- The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. […] it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user”. Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the...2026 August 18, Stuart Heritage, “Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape”, in The Guardian
Forms of dickover
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Questions about dickover
- What does dickover mean?
- Dickover means a pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page presenting the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, and unavoidable interaction.
- What part of speech is dickover?
- Dickover is a noun.
- What is the plural of dickover?
- The plural of dickover is dickovers.
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