Bieber’s vast and vociferous online fan base have made it all but impossible to surf the web without stumbling across references to the teenage pop star. But now a web designer has declared war on “unwanted Bieber mentions” by developing a tool that blacks out his name wherever it appears on the internet. The Shaved Bieber application, which users can add to their browser by saving it as a bookmark, covers up all instances of the words “Justin Bieber” and “Bieber”, as well as any photos that include Bieber in their file names. The tool is likely to prove particularly popular on Twitter, where the incessant tweeting of his teenage fans ensures that Bieber’s name is rarely absent from lists of trending topics, which reflect the most talked-about subjects on the site. Shaved Bieber, which can also be downloaded as Firefox add-on, is the work of web designer Greg Leuch, a member of the Free Art and Technology online creative collective. He has previously devised a plug-in that converts text from upper case to lower case, in reaction to the caps lock-heavy blog posts of rapper Kanye West.