The problem with that is it cannot be used towards people outside of this tech bubble and would just confuse them. It would even fail many profanity filters in chats and forums.

> The derogatory term is for practices that rightfully deserve contempt.

But it doesn't mean that you should expect the layman to use it in common parlance.

Either "Unwanted popup / popover" and even "popup" / "popover" is a far sensible descriptive alternative for the layman than whatever the author is proposing.