[CobrastanJorji]

I endorse this name because, once it's the standard name for this technique, people will have to use it in meetings when seriously proposing them, which makes it harder to seriously propose.

"And this is our design for the Dickover."

"Guys, I'm not sure we should Dickover the customers."

"You know, when you say it that way...."

Epilogue: six months later, the site is dead because they converted nobody to their newsletter.

[Freak_NL]

Who are those people? Those perpetually amused folk who feel not a bit of rage when a dickover is slapped in their face, and for whom entering their e-mail address in the dickover is actually a thing they would seriously consider?

[crote]

Seriously. These days if there isn't a huge "close" button, I'll just press "Back" and find a different website.

[MarkSweep]

And a lot of the time pressing back will take you to some other article on the website instead of where you came from. Because the site used history.pushState in JavaScript to manipulate your history.

[nosioptar]

Unless I have no choice, I just close the tab when a dickover asks for my PII.