AdBlock Is Borking Google Docs

For the retiring day or so , countless Google Docs and Google Drive substance abuser have reported a slew of formatting hiccups that render writing pecker unuseable . cursor would freeze , highlight would n’t make for , and any text edition typed looked likeutter shit . And now we have a culprit . On Wednesday , Google Drive product manager Remy Burgerconfirmedthat it was n’t the company ’s fault , but people ’s ad blockers .

Specifically , Burger point to a late update made by the team behind the AdBlock Plus web web browser extension and the means it works with EasyList — the technical school powering thelist of sitesthat AdBlock and other university extension use to … block ads . AdBlock laterconfirmedthe yield on Twitter , saying that the problem stemmed from an update to the master filter list power its app and that the list ’s authors were working to patch the issue .

For now , the well-to-do way to get your slides and weather sheet melt down again is just disabling your ad blocking agent . If you ’re ( understandably ) not into that idea , AdBlockofferedanother workaround : click into the wing ’s menu , chance the filter listing tab , and update them manually . You canalso tryadding the Google Docs site savoir-faire direct into the wing ’s tilt of whitelisted sites .