dickover — 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; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.
The DNT header was supposed to do this, but no legislation ever required anyone to respect it and it got dropped. Global Privacy Control seems to be the new try, hopefully it goes better.
The DNT header was supposed to do this, but no legislation ever required anyone to respect it and it got dropped. Global Privacy Control seems to be the new try, hopefully it goes better.