Question

An enterprise admin enables the 'Suggestions matching public code' filter to Blocked at the organization level. A developer on the team reports that they still occasionally see a suggestion they believe closely resembles a well-known open-source snippet. What is the most accurate explanation of what the Blocked filter actually does?

Accepted Answer

It suppresses code completions and chat suggestions that match publicly available code of about 150 characters, but it is a heuristic match and does not guarantee that no similar-looking code is ever surfaced.

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It scans every suggestion against the entire global codebase and legally guarantees that no suggestion will ever overlap with any public code.

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It removes only suggestions that match code under restrictive licenses such as GPL, while permissively licensed matches are still shown.

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It disables Copilot entirely for any file whose content resembles a public repository, forcing the developer to write the code manually.