Yet Sourceforge has been putting ads on open source projects for decades.
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
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Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#12I would be curious what Raycast’s reaction is. They just got caught in the crossfire or they deliberately bought ads to be placed with Copilot
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#13the microsoft playbook
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#14Calling advertisements "product tips" as if everybody is too stupid to understand what that means. They created an amazing technology that oftentimes is indistinguishable from magic and then use it to deliver ads and - sorry about the tangent - kill people. This really is the quote of the century: > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads What a waste.
A lot of amazing technology has been invented just for the purpose of killing people. It's nothing new. Humans are monkeys that like to kill other monkeys and no amount of civilization will change that.
It certainly won't change with that kind of attitude. Don't you want to live a peaceful life and be free from your baser instincts? I believe most people do, and if they don't, the mission of those who have education and means should be to show the way in that direction, instead of shrugging off the worst things and excusing them on "monkeys", which IMO is insulting to monkeys.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#15First of all, I find it enraging that dimwitted AI companies decided to edit PR descriptions for anything at all.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#16I just saw the headline fly by yesterday and thought that this was just another dumb bug in what is the slow decline of GitHub. To find out today that this was very much intentional is even worse.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#17> Hearing feedback from the community following Manson's post and the kerfuffle it generated, Rogers said, has helped him realize that "on reflection," letting Copilot make changes to PRs written by a human without their knowledge "was the wrong judgement call." Thankfully, they need the community feedback to realize it was wrong. It was so hard to guess it was wrong without the feedback! It's good to know these peop…
Would be cool if they listened to us about the top voted feedback of all time, re: when the destroyed the feed
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#18I just saw the headline fly by yesterday and thought that this was just another dumb bug in what is the slow decline of GitHub. To find out today that this was very much intentional is even worse.
Exactly same for me.
If I think about it, that was in my head accounted as „no one would be that stupid”.
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#19The problem is that Microslop is not THINKING. What is the point of inserting ads? That just increases the spam output. Sure, Microslop may think this helps boost their revenue but many people hate ad-spam. After I started to use ublock origin, there was no way back to the unsafe ads-down-the-turtles approach anymore. Ads waste people's time and money.
perhaps they forgot to set thinking mode in the LLM payload
Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
#20Microsoft will probably try to sneak it back in later. They've done that with other intrusions. Migrating away from Github just increased in priority.
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Did you mean to link the parent HN comment from someone on the copilot team?