r/github • u/ProjectPhysX • Aug 12 '25

Tool / Resource How to disable GitHub Copilot

  1. Create a GitHub support ticket and complain that you want Copilot disabled on your account.

  2. Wait a few days.

  3. Done!

Really shameful that Microsoft force-enabled this garbage on every account, and are too incompetent to add an off switch. This is rapist mentality. I guess they do this so their managers can claim "everyone is using GitHub Copilot" and not get fired when actual user statistics would reveal that nobody wants this intrusuive plagiarism machine.

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u/Erik_Kalkoken Aug 13 '25

There actually is an option for disabling copilot in the GitHub settings. Worked fine for me. No support ticked needed.

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u/ProjectPhysX Aug 13 '25

That option just hides Copilot. It will still run in the background and plagiarize all your code for "training". There is an entire thread about a Microsoft manager being too incompetent to understand the difference between hide and disable. They never added a disable switch, and spamming support really is the only option.

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u/Erik_Kalkoken Aug 13 '25

You are correct. I personally do not care too much about Github using my public repos for training.

But I also have this option and it is disabled. So it looks like my repos are not shared used for training after all: Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training

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u/ProjectPhysX Aug 13 '25

The trouble is, if anyone has a fork of your repo and did not disable this setting (which Microsoft default-ebabled on all accounts) on their side, your code still gets plagiarized. What Microsoft does here is totally illegal under GDPR.

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u/dodoreremimifafa Aug 14 '25

If the repo is public I guarantee you it gets scrapped/indexed by other third parties that may not all read and care about the license you picked. TL;DR public code will be used for training. If not by Copilot by all the others out there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25

Lol, we use it at work and it’s pretty good. So dunno what you are on about.

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u/danybranding Aug 12 '25

It’s silly of course, but these desperate attempts to give popularity to a product, imposing them by brute force, always end badly, the biggest example of this google+. Let’s hope the people at Microsoft can come to their senses.

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u/indigenousCaveman Aug 13 '25

These reads like someone experiencing a schizo episode

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u/ProjectPhysX Aug 13 '25

No, it's just someone complaining about illegal copyright violation by Microsoft.

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u/indigenousCaveman Aug 13 '25

My apologies then