GitHub: We going to train on your data after all
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: As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

Microsoft’s GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – “specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context” – to train its AI models.

  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    16·
    3 hours ago

    Yeah and Github does not let you use an alias for the login email. For real I got shadowbanned (or something similar): I did not see any warning and could not do any search in a repo and noticed my issues went unanswered… because nobody could fucking see them. So I wrote to support and they told me to use a name.surname email address. I told them to fuck off and never logged in again.

    • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      52 minutes ago

      Holy shit this is insane!

      Microsoft is truly one of the worst companies for the user experience in my opinion. Its like they hate their users.

      • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        52 seconds ago

        I have not been accurate. Here was the answer:

        GitHub** (GitHub Support)

        May 30, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

        Hi there,
         
        Thank you for contacting GitHub Support.
         
        Our abuse detecting systems flagged your account because of the email address you used to register the account. Before we can remove the flag we need you to add and verify a personal, non-disposable, non-aliased email address.
         
        You can add an email address by following the steps here:
         
        https://docs.github.com/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/adding-an-email-address-to-your-github-account
         
        …and you can follow these steps to verify it:
         
        https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/verifying-your-email-address#verifying-your-email-address
         
        Once more, we’ll need you to remove the current email address from your account.
         
        To clarify, we don’t need anything ‘traceable’ to you, feel free to use protonmail or tutanota etc. (just examples, we don’t have any particular recommendation here) it just can’t be a “throwaway” or temporary domain for security and deliverability reasons. You are also welcome to connect to GitHub using a VPN or TOR node if and as you wish.
         
        Let us know when you’ve completed these steps and we’ll be happy to review your account again.
         **
        Github support,
        Rio.

        The alias was/is active, verified and verifiable, I even have TOTP on that account, I just checked… So no, thanks, I am not going to send you DNA samples.