I don't get why people feel entitled to _not_ get dickovers. Are you paying for what you're using, to a sufficient degree that the ecosystem can work without the dickover being presented to you?

This shouldn't be the user's problem, but this is the market working. The dickovers are there because someone somewhere is making money because the dickovers are there. Saying you want the content without the spam is more or less saying you want other people to do the work and you don't want to pay for it.

If you don't like ads/dickovers, you don't have to use the site/app. The provider has decided you're not worth it. To be fair, you probably aren't making them money.

There are exceptions, but you shouldn't feel entitled to use the thing without paying the "dickover price" that the provider has decided to charge.

Yeah this is really bad. Firefox + uBlock Origin + Filters cleans a lot of these dickovers. Some seem to slip through the cracks. There's a never ending fight between bad websites and the warriors trying to protect our attention.

Thank you, I got a good laugh out of that.

My experience was probably exactly as intended. Click on the "What is a dickover?" link completely unsure of the answer (in this context at least). And a brief moment after the page loaded I am hit in the face with a big annoying popup saying "This is a Dickover" followed by immediate understanding.

Never thought to call them dickovers before, but it’s apt. At a certain point, I noticed my finger reflexively hitting the ESC key because that usually dismisses a lot of them.

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Gruber's usually too much of a walking Apple ad for my taste, but I love this.

We need to define the things we hate. Give them words. Use the words as weapons.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently with "watermarks" of the statistical and non-visible kind used to track image creators. (Google embedding "this image is AI but also here's the user ID".)

I've been thinking that practice needs a new word too. It's not watermarking, it's signals-math based tracking, so maybe sigtracked.

That might not sound gross enough though.

Wow, yeah, fuck off with the dickovers.

My own blog has none of that crap. No Google analytics, no tracking. If someone visits my site, I have no idea. And I don't care.