A new app gives you the power to block the pop star.
By Silas Lesnick
May 27, 2010
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If you’ve had it with Canadian teen sensation Justin Bieber and his bubblegum pop music, a development company has created the ultimate remedy – an app that blocks websites that contain any images or text about the young musician. Dubbed “Shaved Bieber,” it actually makes Justin virtually disappear.
"We've developed a series of innovative tools to help cover the lower regions of web pages from unwanted Justin Bieber content," said developer Greg Leuch of Free Art & Technology Lab on his website last Tuesday. "Shave away those Bieber mentions on websites with our bookmarklet, Firefox Add-on or JavaScript files." The first day the notification went live it received more than 17,000 page views.
The new application will even block sites like Wikipedia and Google, amongst others.
Justin Bieber, who hails from Stratford, Ontario, took the world by storm after being discovered by record execs on YouTube; hip-hop star Usher had Bieber perform for him and was signed to a record label weeks later. Since then, his debut single “One Time” hit the top 30 in over ten countries while his debut album “My World” helped the teen become the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
And along the way, Bieber Fever has infected millions of high-pitched teeny-boppers, making him a headache to anyone who isn’t a 10-16-year-old screeching girl with a camera-phone and a Bieber tee.
For more info on the Bieber-blocker, visit http://fffff.at. But wait – if this new Firefox app blocks all content about Justin Bieber then you can’t read this article...
