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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 16:52:25 JST mcc

   News for Copilot haters / AI haters in general: The Copilot "offer" UI that was added to Github last month can now be disabled. If you go to Settings->Copilot there is now a new "Visibility" setting available to non-Copilot users, in my testing setting it to "disable" removes the Copilot box in the top toolbar and the (fake— clicking it just takes you to a signup page) Copilot "search box" on the front page.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 16:52:27 JST mcc

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     I have seen Microsoft employees say many contradictory things about the Copilot offer boxes that appeared in both Github and VSCode (the VSCode box can also be disabled in Settings) over the last month, so I'm not sure this is true, but an MS rep in the Community thread about this *seems* to be saying this disable box was originally supposed to be present, but due to some sort of error they made it so you could only get access to the Copilot disable box by signing up for Copilot first (??) (???)

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     egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 16:52:30 JST egregious philbin

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     @mcc Sounds just stupid enough to be plausible.

     I added a ublock cosmetic filter the first time I noticed these.

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     Ongion (ongion@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 16:52:48 JST Ongion

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     @mcc as a Microsoft employee (but not one with knowledge about this specific "offer") offering his own opinion, I think it's much more likely that the opt-out checkbox was always implemented and functional, but was intentionally hidden to "force people to try it".