“GitHub will roll back the change that injected Copilot upgrade prompts into pull request review pages.”
GitHub put ads in the most sacred surface in software, the code review page, and got rolled by the developer community in less than a week. The fact that a Microsoft product manager thought this was shippable says everything about how the company sees its own platform. Free advertising real estate, owned by a captive audience. Every retreat is followed by a different version of the same idea six months later.