Link to: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/21/dickovers/
Coiner of ‘Enshittification’ Endorses ‘Dickover’
Speaking of dickovers, here’s Cory Doctorow, writing this week at Pluralistic:
Seizing the means of computation isn’t theft, it’s bargaining.
Commercial surveillance companies will tell you that by spying on
you, they are simply engaged in a marketplace exchange in which
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover
Link to: https://x.com/usgraphics/status/2060559523585355986
Link to: https://bvsveera.net/observer-dickover/
Link to: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/116575825801893849
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate…
Tech critic Corey Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse
