1.5M GitHub pull requests have had ads injected into them by Microsoft Copilot
by bundie on 3/30/2026, 3:00:28 PM
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by: john_strinlai
related: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269</a><p>response from timrogers (product manager at github):<p>"<i>Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here. We've now disabled these tips in pull requests created by or touched by Copilot, so you won't see this happen again for future PRs.<p>We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent. The goal was to help developers learn new ways to use the agent in their workflow. But hearing the feedback here, and on reflection, this was the wrong judgement call. We won't do something like this again.</i>"<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233</a>
3/30/2026, 3:17:39 PM
by: mnmnmn
Microsoft employees should be ashamed of this shit
3/30/2026, 5:53:32 PM
by: 1vuio0pswjnm7
Example of multiple items discussing the same topic, both on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/active">https://news.ycombinator.com/active</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575212">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575212</a>
3/30/2026, 5:04:31 PM
by: ChrisArchitect
[dupe] Discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269</a>
3/30/2026, 3:36:26 PM