‘Dickover’ Makes It Into The Guardian
Stuart Heritage, writing for The Guardian, coined new words to describe modern technology annoyances. The "dickover" is a prevalent issue, defined as a modal panel that frustrates users by obscuring content. This includes cookie acceptance boxes, notification prompts, and sign-in requests, which users must dismiss to access desired content. The article argues that dickovers are just one problem in the current "tech hellscape," but a lack of specific vocabulary for such issues has hindered discussion. Heritage offered several new terms to address this gap in language.Other proposed terms include "baggravation" for frustrating self-checkout kiosks. "Schrödinger’s Wi-Fi" refers to public Wi-Fi that is ambiguously present, often found on trains and planes. The author of the source material expressed satisfaction with the "dickover" definition, hoping for its inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary.