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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

plastic041 wrote: post #118

This "ad" is not exactly new. Looks like MS thinks it's a "tip" rather than an ad. I don't know if Raycast team even knows about this. https://github.com/PlagueHO/plagueho.github.io/pull/24#issue... Copilot has been adding "(emoji) (tip)" thing since May 2025. GitHub copilot was released in May 2025, so basically it has had an ad since beginning. There are 1.5m of these things in GitHub. https://github.com/search?q=%…

It's an interesting model, makes me wonder if prolific open source contributors do it ("leave a tip if you like this MR" kind of thing).

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by peaklineops »

computomatic wrote: post #79
pinkmuffinere wrote: post #16

I think they want the free advertisement, like Apple with its “sent from iPhone” addendums. But “sent from iPhone” is sometimes useful, and significantly shorter. If they just left it at “edited with copilot” I think it would be tolerable

I don't think the issue is the sign-off so much as that an existing PR was edited. Claude Code signs off when creating PRs and nobody seems bothered. But it won't edit an existing PR, and it won't sign off if I simply ask it not too (which I've automated). Editing any PR it touches - including one authored by someone else - is downright rude.

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Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by caijia »

I've already be patient when claude code always signs my commits as co-author by defualt. Yes, it is.

But I'm also paying the plan. Theres something odd about a tool which i paid for using my output to AD itself.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by majewsky »

jjav wrote: post #160
theturtletalks wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. At least with open-source, you can fork it and remove the "features" or point your agent to it and have it write the feature in your tech stack. Hell, I just saw an amazing open-source alternative to Raycast[0] and just repl…

> It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. Stallman was always right, after all.

Well, about the free-software part, anyway.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by ccozan »

plastic041 wrote: post #151
esperent wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, it being a "tip" or "ad" is exactly the same. What I mean is that even if I take that at face value and accept that it's not an ad, and I can just about see from a certain level of corporate brainwashing how one could believe that, it's still completely unacceptable.

I do think it's just an ad. Also it's a bad kind of one because 1) it disguises itself as a tip 2) makes people to think if it's an ad for Raycast or other services, when actually it's just promoting itself.

if is paid by and for a 3rd party, is an ad. if not, is a tip.

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by eCa »

chrismorgan wrote: post #17
post_below wrote: post #10

Assuming this isn't a hoax, this seems like a huge, probably unintentional, mistake by MS. If they genuinely implemented something like this, whatever they made from new customers via ads couldn't possibly make up for the loss of good faith with developers and businesses. I suppose if it's real we'll see more reports soon, and maybe a mea culpa.

How could you implement something like this by accident ?

Vibe coding and copilot inserted the ad-code into that PR?

Is that the most charitable way?

Re: Copilot edited an ad into my PR

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Post by dathinab »

This is unsolicited advertisement impersonating the developer (yes people can guess, but this still places it inside a message of the developer and in difference to e.g. mail programs doing it it's not placing it in the draft),

I don't see how this is supposed to be legal.

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