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Since this morning, one of my Google Adsense ad units has taken on a very strange appearance. (This is only happening with text ads; display ads appear normally.)
You can see this for yourself live at http://myip.addr.space/
As you can see, the ad is no longer horizontal. It's... askew. Just like the Google easter egg.
Why is this happening? Can I stop it? (Should I stop it? Maybe this is one weird trick to get people to read the ads and click on them...)
I checked and the ad is perfectly horizontal for me.
If you are still having this issue there are a few things you can check. Right click the ad and click "Inspect element". In the Dev Tools window, look through each of the elements (such as the <body> tag in the iframe) to see if you can find one with the CSS applied (it will be something like transform: rotate(1deg)).
If you find it, make a note of the CSS file it comes from. If it's one of your own files for the site then you can find the line in your CSS and remove it.
It may also be the result of a browser extension such as Stylish, which can add custom CSS to your web pages. Try using incognito mode, or try disabling your extensions one by one until it fixes the problem. Maybe a friend is playing a prank on you and installed that on your computer.
transform: rotate(1deg); which is being served from Google's googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads? (query string omitted as it doesn't fit in the comment). So Google is definitely doing it, at least to me.
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:51