If you've been having issues with weird text formatting or just generally been unable to edit Google Docs or Slides for the last day or two, turns out that's A Thing. We don't know the precise cause or why it's only starting to happen now, but the issue is related to using an ad blocker, and disabling it for that page or those domains can fix things.
We've seen a smattering of reports regarding the issue for the last day or so, seemingly affecting both Google Docs and Slides, and cropping up at venues such as Reddit and Twitter. We aren't sure if it affects any other Google Workspace services.
At least one of us on the AP staff has also run into it, and it can manifest in a few different ways. In the "mildest" cases, text simply starts to wrap itself beneath other elements on the page in a way that obscures it. In more extreme cases, text can be overlaid on top of itself zalgo-style.
