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Microsoft is Locking Down Search for Public Code on GitHub (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 11 months ago by stefenauris@pawb.social to c/tech@pawb.social

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Enshittification begins again

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements

Here, I'm afraid. Third bullet. Whether or not they enforce it is another matter.

Sucks because I kinda might want to contribute some things to projects that I don't want people to know professionally.

Or maybe I can just make my profile private and hope nobody goes looking too hard.

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They...have an "add account" feature right in their UI though. They are obviously okay with multiple accounts. Perhaps it is an abuse thing like if they notice you sock puppeting or something.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

That's for if you have a personal account and one provided by your company.

In some cases, you may need to use multiple accounts on GitHub.com. For example, you may have a personal account for open source contributions, and your employer may also create and manage a user account for you within an enterprise.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ruh roh. Yeah I'm involved with several projects that I'd rather not trace back to my other identities, and I make a new GitHub account per job. Even if they start enforcing it I imagine it's quite hard for them to actually figure out what's all connected without amping up their identification schemes with mandatory phone numbers and etc. I guess we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.

[–] flappy@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they do.

I didn't clear my cookies/use a vpn to sign up for multiple accounts.

All registered accounts, including my main one, were locked. All secondary ones were shadowbanned. I had to message support to get restrictions on my main removed.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Did they actually unlock your account?

All the horror stories I've read about this sort of thing usually end in "I tried to contact support/submit an appeal but they told me to take a hike".

[–] flappy@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, they unlocked one of them.