Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/31/github-copilot-puts-ads-into-pull-requests - blog post

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Sources:

Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr
I'm part of Raycast, we didn't know about it, learnt about it here news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572859
Tim from the Copilot coding agent team here news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573233
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests

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