Tell HN: GitHub is starting to show ads

The implicit contract of GitHub and the developer community is that they host open source projects for free, provide a feature-rich and professional interface, in exchange for developers to push their enterprise subscription at the developers' organizations.

This shouldn't be spelled out, I'm sure that GitHub knows better, but they are just playing the dumb card now and hope to nudge the community to accept this round of good will burning before they start the next.

The current list of anti-developer behaviors:

1. Code search requires login: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-req...

2. Ads are shown in the UI

to be fair its an "ad" for another one of their services.

A lot of companies do this and lie to themselves and their users by pretending ads for their own stuff aren't ads. Spotify is one of the worst offenders with popups for whatever crap they are pushing, I'm not surprised to see this. Given it's microsoft I'm surprised there isn't some MSN taboola style toolbar at the top by now. Anyway, one more reason to switch away from them. (The first is the product they are advertising is trained on your private repos)

you can click on it and then "don't show again", let them know you dislike it in feedback

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started an issue in their feedback repo: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65245

i hate the word enshittification but that's what github is doing