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Link for opting out: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
In the "Privacy" section, set "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" to "Disabled".
Illusion of choice. That setting will, totally unbeknownst to them, enable itself.
I turned it off ages ago, and if you already had it off, it's staying off. (for now at least)
The switch, yes. The system upholding your election... maybe or maybe not.
You better check again, mine got switched back on.
I check it every day before I use CoPilot 😁
It seems to be off by default if you've already opted out of Copilot entirely. Definitely still a reminder I should set up my own git though
I run mine on a raspberry pi zero - wasn’t terrible to set up.