I agree. It's not an advertisement, it's simply a piece of information about your particular choice of technology.

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which is an ad...

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"Sent from my iPhone" actually is an ad when it’s the result of default settings.

Furthermore, the ads in TFA are for Raycast, but apparently it’s not Raycast doing the injecting.

"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast" is an advert. There's simply no better word to describe it.

"Sent from my iPhone" is just as bad. If you don't see it then IDK what to tell you.

> It’s not really ads, it’s more like "Sent from my iPhone"-style sentences at the end of PR texts.

The reason I immediately changed that text on my iPhone 1.0 to read, “Sent from my mobile device.”, is because it’s an ad. Still says that nearly 20y later. I’m not schilling for a corporation after giving them my money.

Agreed. Barely notice it.

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the difference is "sent from my iPhone" is on YOUR outgoing email. you opted into that default. this is copilot editing someone else's PR description with promotional text for third party tools. that's not a signature, that's injection. imagine if gcc started appending "compiled with gcc, try our new optimization flags" to your README every time you built a project.

If it only mentioned made with copilot that would be one thing, but it didn't just mention Copilot. It advertised a different third party app.

It's not an ad, it's a message from our sponsor.

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And everyone thought they were cool! Mac zeolots still put "Made with a Mac" on their webpages.