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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".
Both of them are shorter than the "dickovers" or "clickovers" nonsense.
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.
> "Remove this popup" or "Remove this dickover" > Be honest. The latter definitely is the more honest answer.
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You could call them "clickovers".
"popups" or "popovers" is just fine. Both of them are shorter than the "dickovers" or "clickovers" nonsense.
The derogatory term is for practices that rightfully deserve contempt.
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.
Medium forcing you to log in is too much tho.
One of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John. [1] https://kagi.com/smallweb
Does big tech understand consent? [ ] Yes [ ] Maybe later
They do not care.
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...
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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.
One of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John. [1] https://kagi.com/smallweb
FYI it took me 3 clicks of “next” to hit a page with a cookie dickover. Might need to tweak the filter.