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Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github. (huggingface.co)
submitted 2 months ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programming@programming.dev
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Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

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[-] abacabadabacaba@infosec.pub 81 points 2 months ago

The best way to opt out is by not using GitHub. Also opts you out of Copilot and a bunch of other stuff.

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 months ago

Already did that some time ago but I am still in the dataset.

[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Other git hosts are also getting scraped, and have had to implement counters because of it. For example, this is the kind of thing Codeberg shows crawlers. I've even seen people who self-host complaining about getting overloaded because of bots scraping their forge

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

I've put Anubis before most of my website, including my forgejo instance. For the projects hosted there, which is not all, I can only hope that that's enough.

I like to have the visibility and CI of GitHub. But this sucks ass.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

note that former users would have needed to remove their GitHub data before August 2025 to not be in this dataset

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I back something up, I save a copy and add "backup" to the name... Because I'm advanced.

If I'm feeling really good and healthy, I'll even put it on a usb stick.

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