[throwaway81523]

I've used the politer term "pie" for these things, since they are usually thrown in the user's face like a pie, after the normal screen has been shown for a few seconds.

In the old days, JS allowed window.open() which would create a new window on the user's sceren. That naturally was abused horribly, leading to pop-up-blocker extensions and then built-in browser permissions. We need the same thing for pies/dickovers, which are at root a workaround to the presence of pop-up blocking.

My first reaction to "dickover" was that it sounded like another Marion Zimmer Bradley fantasy fiction series...

[bitwize]

> My first reaction to "dickover" was that it sounded like another Marion Zimmer Bradley fantasy fiction series...

That hits way more darkly given what has come out about Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband...

[throwaway81523]

Yep. Or maybe it could be a renaming of the existing series.

[account42]

Maybe web browsers need a website mode where dynamic scripting first requires permission. You could allow scripts for a short time after page load to deal with pages where that is needed to show any content.