Copilot ads in the code viewer

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Just discovered ads for copilot on the code viewer, and since the general feedback post seems to be deleted, I'll just share my thoughts about that here:

Ads like these are absolutely unacceptable, and even just the idea of putting ads into critical spaces like these should be immediately thrown out. I understand you want people to use your product, but ads like these are not how you achieve that. I thought I'd give it a try sometime soon, but this action single-handedly removed all of my incentive to do so.

[cschreib]

Came here to express the same thing. One of the main appeal of the GitHub web interface, to me, is that it is very lean and uncluttered. This message is distracting advertising, and has nothing to do with the content I am browsing. Please, please, do not do this, or at the very least add a "dismiss" button. This is a professional platform, treat it as such.

[guest271314]

Here you go.

One line of CSS to get rid of GitHub "Copiot" advertising on code view and preview pages on GitHub. Written by human hand, tested by human hand. No "artificial" intelligence involved.

.react-code-size-details-in-header:nth-of-type(2),[data-testid="copilot-popover-button"]{display:none!important}

Browser extension, tested on Chromium 118 and Firefox Nightly 119 no-copilot-ad.

[thennothinghappened]

really doesn't belong sitting right there. that's ridiculous.

[Colonial-Dev]

Pretty convincing evidence that nobody is using Copilot long term, if they have to resort to such aggressive advertising tactics.

Not really surprising, IMO.

[fwcd]

@guest271314 button[data-testid="copilot-popover-button"] works too

[guest271314]

@fwcd GitHub is trying to be slick. The last time I checked the element is different in the non-preview mode of the repository cf. the preview mode, e.g., when you edit your code and click "Preview". That's why I used two (2) selectors.

[jl2]

Yeah, really disappointed when I noticed this. It's easy enough to ad-block it, but I shouldn't have to on a service I'm paying for.

What bothers me the most is that the placement of the ad makes it look like I'm endorsing CoPilot.

[tgrandgent]

A similar problem exists in Outlook too:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/how-do-i-remove-the-copilot-ad-in-my-outlook-app/513730d0-90d1-4824-82eb-6888a9002e7e

[guest271314]

Spamming everything they can with that garbage.

[M7T5M3P]

Yeap quite disapointing got to admit it, but you can still use chat gpt

[Engineer-Hasibur-Rahman]

Yeah, it's pretty disappointing, got to admit it, but you can still use ChatGPT.

[guest271314]

I'm not interested in the garbage people call "artificial intelligence" at all. It's a scam.

[draeath]

Why is this advertisement still there? Get this garbage out of here.

If you use uBlock Origin, the following filter rule will remove this nonsense (at this time):

github.com##[data-testid="copilot-popover-button"]