{"id":1156,"date":"2011-11-22T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/22\/nickelblock-its-a-plugin-that-blocks-anything-nickelback-related\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:02:33","slug":"nickelblock-its-a-plugin-that-blocks-anything-nickelback-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/11\/22\/nickelblock-its-a-plugin-that-blocks-anything-nickelback-related\/","title":{"rendered":"NickelBlock: It&#8217;s a Plugin That Blocks Anything Nickelback Related&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/images\/1024.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"98\" \/><br \/>Nickelback is out with a new album, but you&#8217;d never know if you have &#8216;NickelBlock&#8217; installed. That&#8217;s the name of a recently-released browser plugin for both Firefox and Chrome that actively blocks any information related to the band.\u00a0 Developed by Aux.tv, the band-scrub imagines a world without the musical contributions of these Canadian rockers.\u00a0 &#8220;That&#8217;s it. You&#8217;ll never read about Nickelback again,&#8221; the company promises.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0   <!--more-->  <br \/>We tried the Chrome extension, and found it a little half-baked.\u00a0 Several mentions of Nickelback slipped through the cracks, raising the question of whether a Nickelblock&#8217;d internet is a practical impossibility.\u00a0 Other pages were more impressively scrubbed, including this YouTube search for &#8216;Nickelback&#8217;.\u00a0 Even the band&#8217;s name was scrubbed from the browser tab and search box.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/images\/1025.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aux.tv was inspired by earlier pioneers in this scrubbing arena, most notably &#8216;Shaved Bieber,&#8217; also a browser plug-in.\u00a0 &#8216;Shaved Bieber,&#8217; developed by Free Art &amp; Technology, batted a bee&#8217;s nest of controversy by muting every Bieber mention, lyric, and image from the browsing experience.\u00a0 In fact, the developers soon found themselves engulfed in a jihad-like, multi-theatre campaign against teenage girls throughout the world.\u00a0 Nickelblock is unlikely to face such a vociferous backlash. <\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 Digital Music News<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nickelback is out with a new album, but you&#8217;d never know if you have &#8216;NickelBlock&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}