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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…
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2026 | What Is a Dickover? by tambourine_man | 558 | 205 |
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