# 🔗 What Is a Dickover? - Author: @gurupanguji - Date: 2026-05-30 - URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/05/30/what-is-a-dickover/ - Categories: link - Tags: browser, mobile, quotes, web --- > You know what a dickover is, even if you didn’t know what to call it (until now). If you use the Internet, you encounter them every day. They’re popovers, but dickheaded. The web is absolutely lousy with them, and mobile apps present them too, with increasing frequency. > > Dickovers are a veritable scourge. They’re so common they’re effectively part of the firmament. I started calling these things [*dickpanels* in 2022](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/08/02/banish), but when *dickover* popped into my head last week,1 I couldn’t shake the feeling that it’s a better term for these ubiquitous odious irritations. You can hardly go anywhere on the web without getting dicked over by a dickover. They often pester you about permitting cookies, like [this one from Euronews](https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/dickover-euronews.jpeg) or [this one from Gallup](https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/dickover-gallup-cookie.png). This malicious design pattern is so ubiquitous that it has spread even to personal blogs, [like this one from my friend Om Malik](https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/dickover-om-newsletter.png), and to [great brands like Field Notes](https://daringfireball.net/misc/2026/05/dickover-field-notes.jpeg), both asking you to sign up for their newsletters. *Source:* [What Is a Dickover?](https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover) Gruber at his finest.