Disabling GitHub Copilot in 6 simple steps and 6 weeks waiting

I have no intention to use any part of Microsoft GitHub's Copilot. And yet I have access and with a monthly frequency I receive the "Your GitHub Copilot access has been renewed" email. Copilot is all over the UI and there's seemingly no way to fully disable it. I'm known for finding ublock rules to hide most of the UI stuff¹.

And then sky told me: you can just ask GitHub Support to disable it for you! So here's the² recipe of success to disable GitHub Copilot once and for all:

1. Open a support ticket on https://support.github.com/ and ask GitHub to disable Copilot for your account.
2. Ask again 2 weeks later.
3. Tell them that yes, you indeed still want to have Copilot disabled. Even 3 weeks later.
4. Ask again a couple of days later.
5. Get a reply that support staff is working with engineers to get it done, 3 days later.
6. Wait until the ticket is silently closed and you receive the "Share your feedback with us" email, 5 days later.

And for further proof that this plan works here's my support ticket:

And here's proof it's disabled in the settings:

Thank you, Dennis!

Others don't seem so successful unfortunately (or just have to wait way longer).

Footnotes:

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2. *my. ↩