What Is a Dickover?

Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover? By John Gruber Archive // Linked List '; if (display_linked_list == "hide") { // Linked List is off on home page, so show it in menu: document.write(li_linked + " \n "); } else { // Default to not putting separate LL item in sidebar: } // ]]> The Talk Show Dithering Projects Contact Colophon Feeds / Social Twitter --> Sponsorship Build anything with exe.dev . It’s just a computer. What Is a Dickover? Friday, 29 May 2026 Please enjoy this article on its own webpage . Trust me. 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. You know what a dickover is, even if you didn’t know what to call it (un