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.
The best way to opt out is by not using GitHub. Also opts you out of Copilot and a bunch of other stuff.
Already did that some time ago but I am still in the dataset.
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.
note that former users would have needed to remove their GitHub data before August 2025 to not be in this dataset