What Is a Dickover? • Hacker News Board

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by userbinator » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:41 AM UTC

Did anyone else think this was a clever keming pun?

Fortunately, for those sites where either JS is required for the content or to remove the dickover, browsers still have an Inspect Element tool that makes deleting this and other annoyances not too difficult and rather cathartic.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:44 AM UTC

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Re: What Is a Dickover?

#33

Post by bayesnet » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:45 AM UTC

The only surprising thing about the Tom’s Hardware example was that John Gruber evidently does not use an adblocker

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by pooploop64 » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:45 AM UTC

Fanboys Annoyances List for Ublock. Install it on your family's computers when they aren't looking. It aims to filter ALL this crap.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by userbinator » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:45 AM UTC

rvz wrote: post #26

I'm sorry but this is such a stupid name. Where did the author get this name from? Why would I say that in front of any female colleage or any non-technical layman? We already have a name for this and it is a "popup". Which sounds better? "Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover" Be honest.

You could call them "clickovers".

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by rubyfan » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:48 AM UTC

tardedmeme wrote: post #24

internet2000 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, Europe!

Yep. Without Europe, we'd have no idea which websites were trying to sell us out to the highest bidder.

Surprise, they all are!

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by skybrian » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:48 AM UTC

Did you know that a Substack's author can turn the annoying popup off? Go to dashboard -> settings, and then it's "Enable subscribe prompts on post page" under "Growth."

It's the first thing I did. Recommended.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by JoshTriplett » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:49 AM UTC

> They’re popovers, but dickheaded.

So they're popovers.

Seriously. I've never seen a popover used for any legitimate purpose. If it was the content the user wanted, you can put it in the page where it goes.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by freediver » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:56 AM UTC

One of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John.

[1] https://kagi.com/smallweb

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by 8675309t » Sat, May 30, 2026, 1:57 AM UTC

avaer wrote: post #10

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