{"id":227431,"date":"2021-04-15T13:17:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/google-docs-acting-weird-turn-off-your-adblocker\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:17:43","slug":"google-docs-acting-weird-turn-off-your-adblocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/google-docs-acting-weird-turn-off-your-adblocker\/","title":{"rendered":"#Google Docs acting weird? Turn off your adblocker"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Google Docs acting weird? Turn off your adblocker<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

I spend so much time on Google Docs that I do my best not to think about it. But I was forced to today \u2014 because Google Docs is acting weird<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There were issues. Firstly, I couldn\u2019t select any text on Google Docs. Secondly, much of this text was running off the page. The technical term for this, I believe, is \u201ca shitter.\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of this, Google Sheets was layering text over the top of itself, making it impossible to read anything. And, I don\u2019t know about you, but reading tends to be a big part of my Google Docs Suite experience.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is the sort of shit that Google Sheets has been serving me recently:<\/p>\n

\"Google
<\/a>This is meant to say \u201cEditorial Meeting\u201d and I regret to inform you that I actually found this quite entertaining at the time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here\u2019s what it looked like while I was trying to write:<\/p>\n

\"Google
<\/a>WHY IS GOOGLE DOCS ACTING WEIRD?? Also, this is a draft of our consumer tech news<\/a>letter, Plugged In. Sign up for that here<\/a>. Damn, this is some incredible ~ s y n e r g y ~.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the text issue in Google Sheets was kinda funny (mainly because I didn\u2019t need to present anything), Google Docs acting weird was infuriating.<\/p>\n

I first noticed it yesterday, and spent the afternoon closing and opening Chrome again to try and fix it. Nothing worked. Thankfully, I came across this Google community post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Basically, it says to turn off your adblocker if Google Docs is acting weird.<\/p>\n

And \u2014 WOULD YOU BELIEVE? \u2014 I turned off my adblocker and was able to start working again. Whether this is a good thing or not depends entirely on your view of my\u00a0art.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

From what I can tell at the moment, this is an issue that\u2019s only impacting Google Docs on Chrome. Other browsers I\u2019ve tried this on don\u2019t have the problem \u2014 so maybe try switching to them if turning off your adblocker doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t expect this issue to last more much longer, I\u2019d assume Google will fix it as soon as possible. This gives me just enough time to stare in the mirror and question the life choices that led me to spending most of my waking life on Google Docs.<\/p>\n

The horror, oh god, the horror of it all.<\/p>\n

Did you know we have a newsletter all about consumer tech? It\u2019s called Plugged In \u2013
\n and you can subscribe to it right here<\/a>.
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