Google Docs “And” Loop
Bryan Menegus (via Dave Mark):
And. And. And. And. And.
For whatever reason that specific string of words seems to be enough to permanently brick a Google Docs page. Noted Google’s support pages mere hours ago, the poster who seemingly discovered this unusual bug is quick to point out that the series of five conjunctions, separated by periods, is case-sensitive (at least if the goal is to cause the document in question to become unusable.)
Engadget was able to confirm the issue on a 16-inch 2019 MacBook Pro running Monteray 12.3.1 and Google Chrome 100.0.4896.127… and we were summarily greeted by the “Something went wrong” popover as well as its loathsome cousin “Unable to load file.” Reloading the page as prompted results in the same popovers. In effect, a death loop.
What a strange bug. It sounds like you can’t even access the document enough to revert the last edit. I wonder whether you can download it or if your data is totally inaccessible?
Previously:
- Malformed iMessage Could Cause iPhone Boot Loop
- “Black Dot” Unicode Bug
- Another iOS Crash Caused By Sending Unicode Character
- Google Docs Glitch Blocks Files for TOS Violations
