The Stealth Pitch: Why GitHub Copilot is Secretly Injecting Ads Into Your Pull Requests
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A developer discovered that GitHub Copilot injected promotional content into Pull Request descriptions via hidden HTML comment tags in Markdown, impacting roughly 11,000 PRs; GitHub confirmed the behavior was deliberate and has since disabled the advertising feature.
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