Microsoft has pulled an online ad for its browser Internet Explorer 8, which featured a woman vomiting several times.
The ad was deemed...distasteful, by consumers. (apologies for the pun).
The ad features actor Dean Cain who explains how IE8 can wipe-away browsing tracks to avoid others from seeing a user's web surfing history.
The offensive part of the ad comes in the rather graphic demonstration of the results of a wife, using her husband's computer, who inadvertently finds a site in the browsing history and finds it so disturbing, she vomits on the floor.
Her husband slips over on her vomit and she proceeds to vomit all over him while Cain steps into the foreground and tells viewers that the woman is suffering from "OMGIGP" or "Oh My God I'm Gonna Puke" syndrome.
For those who are interested, here's a link to the offending ad:
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