Published 22:41 IST, May 29th 2019

VIRAL: User complains of 'vulgar' ads to IRCTC, gets epic advice in return from official handle

Twitter has made it easy to voice one’s grievances, be it to the biggest leaders or platforms, but that also exposes one to trolls if the concerns are not fool-proof. VIRAL: User complains of 'vulgar' ads to IRCTC, gets epic advice in return from official handle.

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Twitter has me it easy to voice one’s grievances, be it to biggest leers or platforms, but that also exposes one to trolls if concerns are t fool-proof. Users of microblogging platform faced such a situation recently when y complained of ‘vulgar’ s on  Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) portal of Railways to book train tickets. platform’s reply to ‘aggrieved’ parties about how y were receiving said vertisements due to ir browsing history is going viral. 

A Twitter user shared screenshots from portal that contained vertisements of a lingerie brand, app for doctors to cure sexual problems and a website about reasons for extra-marital affairs. He captioned it, “Obscene and vulgar s are very frequently appearing on IRCTC ticket booking app. This is very embarrassing and irritating”, also tagging Railway Ministry and Minister Piyush Goyal. 

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Ar user also shared similar screenshots of a website to ‘connect’ and wrote, “I feel very b during booking bcoz this vertisement. Sir Pl look into this pls..” 

IRCTC portal’s straightforward reply is winning Internet, “Irctc uses Googles serving tool X for serving s.se s uses cookies to target user. Based on user history and browsing behaviour s are shown. Pl clean and delete all browser cookies and history to avoid such s.” 

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reply led to some hilarious responses and memes by netizens.  Check m out here: 

 

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22:23 IST, May 29th 2019