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Dan LuuonMastodon20h ago
Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)
https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks+from+anywhere+on+your+macOS+or+Windows+machine+with+Raycast%22&type=pullrequests&s=created&o=asc&p=1
What will they think of next?
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Analysis Summary
This is real — Copilot is injecting promotional ads into GitHub pull request descriptions. Multiple sources from the last few hours confirm the issue. Over 11,000 pull requests across thousands of repos contain the same Raycast ad. The post accurately describes the scope and mechanism, though the exact daily injection rate is difficult to verify independently.
Claims Analysis (4)
“Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions”
Copilot is injecting promotional content into pull requests, with text like "⚡ Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast"
“Over 1k injections per day starting around 10 days ago”
The promotional text appears in over 11,000 different pull requests across thousands of repos on GitHub; scale/timeline is corroborated but exact daily rate unverified
“Hidden HTML comments enable this ('START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS')”
The raw markdown of affected pull requests contains a hidden HTML comment, "START COPILOT CODING AGENT TIPS"
“Older instances exist but scale increased recently”
This is not an isolated incident; the promotional text appears in over 11,000 PRs on GitHub and even GitLab merge requests
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