They started with Ink but have since switched to their own renderer:
> We originally built Claude Code on Ink, a React renderer for the terminal. [...] Over the past few months, we've rewritten our rendering system from scratch (while still using React).
> They have the technical means to control what goes on there or not.
They have less control than you may think.
Any ethereum miners (or proof-of-stake validators) who block some class of transactions immediately become vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
This came up back in 2016 with the DAO hack on ethereum[1]. Some ethereum miners considered blocking transactions that moved the stolen funds, but then realized that this was infeasible: if you block such transactions, then the DAO hacker can spam you with them. Such spam on ethereum is usually prevented by requiring the sender to spend money on each transaction (ie pay gas fees). But that fee is only charged when the transaction is included in a block -- if you refuse to include it, then the spammer pays nothing. The kicker is that, by Rice's theorem, there is no way in general to distinguish "malicious" transactions from non-malicious ones (for _any_ definition of "malicious") short of just executing them to see what they do.
So if you as an ethereum miner (or validator) try to block certain transactions, you can be forced to do unbounded amounts of work for free, ie DoS'd.
I do subscribe to channels and my feed is also flooded with these scams. (Though usually it is not this bad -- it got much worse starting on the day of SpaceX's Inspiration 4 launch.)
I'm assuming the algorithm is showing them to me because I watch lots of SpaceX and other space videos. The descriptions in these videos are even ripped directly from legit videos that I actually watched!
You're not the only one. I've been getting annoyed by these, too.
I was encouraged today to discover that youtube has a report history page that lets you know the outcome of your reports. Most of the videos I've reported have been removed, including most of the ones I've reported in the last 12 hours. So at least _something_ is being done about them, even though the current effort is not sufficient against the unending inflow of new scam videos.
> We originally built Claude Code on Ink, a React renderer for the terminal. [...] Over the past few months, we've rewritten our rendering system from scratch (while still using React).
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/769#issueco...