"Over 1.5 million GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot's coding agent" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

Microsoft rolled it back and used the most weasel'y wording language imagineable to say they did so https://twitter.com/martinwoodward/status/2038612131084464521

> We've disabled it already. Basically it was giving product tips which was kinda ok on Copilot originated PR's but then when we added the ability to have Copilot work on _any_ PR by mentioning it the behaviour became icky. Disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback.

"product tips" lmao