By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026One of 2026's better tech-related coinages is "dickover," John Gruber's term for > a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction... 1/ 722384
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/21/d... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 1294
fedetibaldo | Wishlist KEEP MAKING @fedetibaldo.com · 21/07/2026Very great thread. As a web developer in the EU, I can’t agree more. Cookie banners should be burned to the ground—let users choose at the browser level already! Then, make it mandatory to honor that *and just that*. One can dream… 1578
our lady of the cow parsley @ladycowparsley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Cookies on a website that reports security risks were special. 010
Mark Meyer @markmeyer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Looking at you @nytimes.com. Multiple times a day you you force this on you paying customers. 010
Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · 22/07/2026What do you think of Safari’s feature of removing distracting content? Safari remembers that the next time you visit. I’m saying that because Firefox on macOS was not easy on the RAM for me. I tried it, but it was much slower than Chrome and took a lot of memory, so I switched back. 010
Eugene Hetzel @eugenehetzel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Like your coinage, one feels compelled to embrace a level of crude language as it is all deformational at the end of the day, and thus unworthy of terminology that enshrines progress. 110