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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 12 hours ago

Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptions

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Copilot is now injecting ads into PR descriptions

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 12 hours ago
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Attached: 4 images Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads) https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1 What will they think of next?
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    https://github.com/search?q="⚡+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast"&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1

    • db0
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      1•12 hours ago

      I believe that it happened, but I’m not yet convinced it wasn’t some sort of bug. But I want to believe!

      • melroy
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        It’s not a bug… It’s promoting Raycast. The initial link goes to the github docs https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/coding-agent/create-a-pr#asking-copilot-to-create-a-pull-request-from-raycast

        Which again points to https://www.raycast.com/

        • tracyspcy
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          so it seems raycast embeds this promo with link

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