Dan LuuMar 30

Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)

https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

What will they think of next?

Show threadMichael GaleMar 30
@danluu the word injection makes it sound like ominous third party manipulation, but is this just microsoft being microsoft?
Show threadNina KalininaMar 30
@miclgael @danluu Raycast is third party though
Show threadnicole mikołajczyk 🔜 sesja linuksowa ➡️ piwo ➡️ gpnMar 30
@nina_kali_nina @miclgael @danluu it links to github docs
Show threadMichael GaleMar 30

@mkljczk @nina_kali_nina @danluu

I think the annoying thing for me is I can't tell if:

- Copilot inject ad now
- User found dodgy free tier wrapper around copilot that inject ad now
- Autonomously deployed AI bot farm for injecting ad inject ad now

Because all outputs look the same because Microsoft hold a gigantic foot cannon and aim it at the crater where their feet used to be, daily.

Show threadMichael GaleMar 30

@mkljczk @nina_kali_nina @danluu

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests

Oh cool.

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Updated: Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager

The Register
Show threadMichael Gale
@mkljczk also if "ads" is all microslop has left to turn a profit with this, it's kinda over.
Mar 30 at 10:03pmWeb