---
title: "dickover"
description: "dickover\u2002_\u2002:\u2002a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or > app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an >..."
date: 2026-05-29
published: true
tags:
  - dev
  - webdev
template: til
---


> 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, agree
> to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits
> about.
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