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Blocking Copilot on Github? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23000833

I've absolutely grown to hate everything AI/LLM related.

It's sole marginal benefit is to senior devs,
with generating some boiler plate code,
which you usually still need to adjust.

For the rest it's been a waste of:

Time during development, with wrong answers.
Time during reviews, with garbage generated PRs from junior devs.
Energy, contributing to global warming.

But lately M$ has been intrusively shoving Copilot down our throats on Github, which I'm quite unhappy with.

So if any of you have some uBlock Origin filters,
or any other ideas on how I can block this Copilot slop out,
please do enlighten me!

Edit: Did some searching of my own.

Go to: https://github.com/settings/copilot
Block + disable everything you can under there.

Then go to uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com###copilot_free_global

It's not perfect, but at least it's a start of getting rid of the unwanted content.

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[–] eksb 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://gitlab.com/eksb/usercsscripts/-/blob/main/hide-copilot.user.css

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Awesome, thank you for that!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

uBlock's source code is hosted on Github I think, so maybe they're not so keen on openly disrupting their dumb AI.

Github itself has a helpful guide though, on how your firewall may be blocking Copilot. Might be possible to just ban all traffic from these URLs and be rid of it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you, that's already a nice start! 🙂

But I was mostly hoping to block the UI elements,
e.g. today they added a Copilot button,
and they also moved the search bar,
and replaced it's old position with "ask copilot".

Would be lovely get the feel of the old Github UI back
with all the Copilot references filtered out.

Edit: Figured it out, check my main post edit for the filters!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope this will be helpful to you: https://giveupgithub.org/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Believe me, I'd love to ditch Github!

But it's a really though bullet to bite for me..

It kinda acts as my CV for when I'd apply for a new job, and in my nearly 10 years on the platform I've accumulated a nice follower and star count to prove my worth as a developer, which is hard to regain on smaller more privacy respecting platforms like Codeberg or Forgejo..

Perhaps it's time to move to Codeberg though.
If I'd do so I will probably:

Initially mirror the repo's to Codeberg
Notify the users about scheduled date to move to Codeberg
Archive the Github repo's and finalize move to Codeberg