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Copilot is now injecting ads into GitHub pull requests. It's a disaster. (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 65 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

March 30, 2026 @ 10:45 AM EST: Martin Woodward, Vice President of Developer Relations at GitHub, confimed that Copilot was injecting product tips into pull requests but that the feature has been disabled following feedback.

They posted an update to the article about this recent update. After feedback, they decided to disable this feature.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It'll be back. They'll just wait a little longer to fully implement it.

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eventually it will be This feature can only be disabled on Enterprise or Pro+ plans