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What Is a Dickover?

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Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by JKCalhoun »

king_zee wrote: post #8
JKCalhoun wrote: post #2

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Most people don't care about this and they should, I have the google analytics import on my business endeavors, but why would I put it into a blog? Why subject both myself and my poor readers to yet another tentacle to suck our interaction into its googolplex of data. I hope all webdevs start caring more. On that same note, I hope all webdevs stop using substack, it's so trivial nowadays to make and style your own bl…

So, here on HN, some years back, when I said as much (about my blog having no analytics, etc.) I was asked why did I even blog?

I've always thought of blogging as just writing a note, dropping it in a bottle and tossing it. No idea what happens to it once I post it.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by JKCalhoun »

michaelt wrote: post #19

I have a theory that about 97% of developers and managers completed the cookie consent (or whatever) on their own product 5 years ago and hence never see it again, and they have no idea how bad the experience for new customers actually is. So the developers and bosses all think they're doing a great job and they've got a carefully curated homepage, even though the regular users get a cloudflare captcha, then a cookie…

I have a theory that they don't care what customers think.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by albert_e »

Need of the hour :

Browser personalization tools or extensions ...

A combination of User stylesheet (stylus) or User scripts (greasemonkey) -- superpowered by AI models that can let users target screen elements and shape webpage display and behavior without having to manually deal with precise DOM elements or CSS JS syntax

Best useful tweaks could become part of a curated list like uOrigin ad block lists

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by hootz »

freediver wrote: post #39

One of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John. [1] https://kagi.com/smallweb

Oh, Vlad is here. Thanks for Kagi, and spread these thanks to all Kagi employees too! Please adopt dickover.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by pennomi »

-warren wrote: post #47

Dickovers are annoying -- tell me, what's your solution? For me, a combination of a) not patronizing these sites, but when I have to b) some ad blockers help. Nothing seems to work well though.

I don’t know if there’s a personal solution to this but the societal solution is to penalize dickovers at the SEO level.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by lostlogin »

andai wrote: post #45

I explicitly disable these on Substack but it adds them to my posts anyway. I'm not sure if that's a bug or the thing working as intended, but it was enough to make me stop using it. I don't want to do that to my readers.

Substack’s dubious practices aren’t as bad as their dubious politics.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by JKCalhoun »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #38

> 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.

Only time… I added a popover [1] in order to get a user click so I could enable sound.

I know, I know, but it's a game site. It needs sound! [2]

[1] https://mooncraft2000.com

[2] Damn, I just tried my site again and a recent Safari has blocked my weak attempt to force sound.

Re: What Is a Dickover?

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Post by kcplate »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #52
michaelt wrote: post #19

I have a theory that about 97% of developers and managers completed the cookie consent (or whatever) on their own product 5 years ago and hence never see it again, and they have no idea how bad the experience for new customers actually is. So the developers and bosses all think they're doing a great job and they've got a carefully curated homepage, even though the regular users get a cloudflare captcha, then a cookie…

I have a theory that they don't care what customers think.

Oh we care, but when it comes to cookie dickovers, we care more about making the corporate lawyers happy.

I’ll admit that I definitely like collecting my paycheck much more than I worry about customer annoyance at acknowledging a cookie policy. Some hills ain't worth dying on.

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