Nickelblock browser plugin helps keep life Nickelback-free

November 21, 2011 By Andrew Couts

Nickelback has a new album out — and the Nickelblock browser plugin will help make sure you don't have to hear anything about it.

We’re sure there are plenty of you out there who are giddy as a schoolgirl that Nickelback’s new album, Here And Now, has officially launched. For the rest of us, however, news that the universe now contains even more Nickelback is a bit like finding out that Creed has sold more records in the US than Jimi Hendrix. And by that, we mean, it’s extremely lame.

Fortunately for all you anti-Nickelbackers, Aux.tv has created “Nickelblock,” a plugin for Firefox and Chrome browsers, which promises to “scrub Nickelback from the Internet. Permanently.” Or, as Aux.tv puts it on their website, “Nickelblock will eliminate all mention of Alberta’s finest swamp heshers from your web browser. That’s it. You’ll never read about Nickelback again.”

Nickelblock was inspired by Free Art & Technology’s “Shaved Bieber” browser plugin, which does basically the same thing, but with content related to Justin Beiber, instead of Nickelback.

To install:

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Mark Moore at 5:54am 25th November 2011 Check This Motown Tribute To Nickelback --> http://youtu.be/3KzP4bC1Ypg?hd=1
jesterking at 9:49am 22nd November 2011 ermmmm... I haven't heard anything about Nickelback for about 4 years now... Had no clue they have a new album, and haven't heard/read anything online about their new album other than this article...So, I would find this plugin worthless.
Jeffrey Van Camp at 10:37am 21st November 2011 I don't mind Nickelback. I think you guys are a bunch of hipster haters. Plenty of reason to criticize the band, but no reason to care enough about Nickelback to install a browser plugin. If Nickelback's songs were offensive to the ears, they wouldn't be the top selling foreign act other than the Beatles of the last decade. Formulaic, sure, but most popular music is. It's not like anyone is forced to hear them on the radio anymore. We all have a thousand ways to listen to the music we want.
1. icetrout at 10:27am 22nd November 2011 Orki,Dorki Jeffrey :O
2. fimpson at 10:53pm 22nd November 2011 Well, most people, you included, obviously have no sense of taste.