Any site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.
Thanks for the tip! I've never heard of Stylus, but am checking it out.
What Is a Dickover?
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#92> Cookie permissions are unnecessary. Signing up for an email newsletter is unnecessary.
They are necessary, as in: without them the creator perhaps wouldn’t be able to justify running the website.
As long as users visit websites with poor ux and show no preference versus websites with good ux, there will reliably be websites with poor ux.
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#93I 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…
Best ones, when refusing, ask again on the next page.
Perhaps they don't know what a functional cookie is? Maybe the marketing vocabulary only has YES?
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#94I've used the politer term "pie" for these things, since they are usually thrown in the user's face like a pie, after the normal screen has been shown for a few seconds. In the old days, JS allowed window.open() which would create a new window on the user's sceren. That naturally was abused horribly, leading to pop-up-blocker extensions and then built-in browser permissions. We need the same thing for pies/dickovers,…
> My first reaction to "dickover" was that it sounded like another Marion Zimmer Bradley fantasy fiction series... That hits way more darkly given what has come out about Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband...
Yep. Or maybe it could be a renaming of the existing series.
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#95One of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John. [1] https://kagi.com/smallweb
I hope you make an exception for this specific page.
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#96The only surprising thing about the Tom’s Hardware example was that John Gruber evidently does not use an adblocker
Look closer. I doubt he uses Chrome regularly, I think he's using it to write this article precisely because he has no extensions installed in it.
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#98One of criteria for inclusion into Kagi Small Web [1] is no dickovers. Thanks for naming it properly John. [1] https://kagi.com/smallweb
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#99I'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.
I agree, it’s dumb. I never call those things popovers (is that a regional term?) so the whole time the word was a bit jarring. Also, at first I thought this was a riff on combovers, and imagined some weird male Medusa creature with a thinning head of dicks, and it was so disappointing when that turned out to be wrong.
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#100Did 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.
Safari’s “Hide Distracting Items” feature is one big reason I never use Chrome.