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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by WD-42 on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:28AM (#47570673)
Why is copilot doing this? If they wanted to show ads couldn’t they… just show ads? Or is GitHub such a house of cards at this point that editing pr descriptions is the only way without risking another 9 of downtime?
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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by politelemon on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:47AM (#47571193)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570820

I think this is a ray cast issue, looking at these links. It appears on gitlab too, which is enough for me.

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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by flogy on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:48AM (#47570815)
Are we sure this actually is originating from MS Copilot itself? Technically I believe it would be possible to smuggle ads into PRs using prompt injection too.
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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by lionkor on Monday March 30, 2026 @04:15AM (#47571761)
Yes https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...
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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by oefrha on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:41AM (#47570772)
If they show the ad on github.com, agents accessing the PR using (an outdated, ad-free version of) gh CLI won’t see it. /s

(That said I’m rather skeptical of this and would like to see more details of the process that produced this, and proof.)

Edit: Just noticed this official GitHub blog post from last month advertising Raycast, making this story a lot more believable: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-17-assign-issues-to-co...

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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by MattGaiser on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:01AM (#47570897)
It could simply be something in the Raycast integraton?
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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by oefrha on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:09AM (#47570944)
I said it’s more believable than GitHub randomly advertising a non-GitHub product (my initial read of the situation, which seemed highly unlikely).
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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by rob74 on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:06AM (#47571303)
...a non-GitHub and non-Microsoft product.
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Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR by acka on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:28AM (#47572566)
An originally macOS-only product, too.

Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.

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