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

hello,

ah ... another clear case of AGI *) ...

*) ads generated income

just my 0.02€

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good that they walked it back but the fact it shipped at all says a lot about how these tools are being monetized. trust is hard to rebuild once you start injecting stuff into developer workflows

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Yet Sourceforge has been putting ads on open source projects for decades.

But it's a perfect fit for their business strategy of forcibly inserting their software into your anus..! How could it have gone wrong??