The simplest way of dealing with annoying regular trends used to be to change your location to Venezuela. Since then, though, to make trending topics a bit more meaningful to you. Still, there's one surefire way to ensure that Justin Bieber never makes an appearance on your sidebar.

Made by 18-year-old , the Purge Twitter Topics plugin will automatically hide trending topics from showing up if they include the name of certain pop stars--and you can add your own in as well. It's not available on the Chrome Web Store, but you can (note: link will appear as a bunch of gibberish if you're not running Chrome).

I've been using these extensions for a while to help me stay a little bit calmer when browsing, and while they individually only fix small things, it really helps. I'm still waiting for someone to build a working sarcasm detector, though--my search in the Chrome Web Store for "sarcasm" didn't come back with any results, but I'm not sure if it was being serious or not...

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