Commits were tapering off ever since DMCA reboot. Hasn't missed a month since 2009. Now no commits since over two months. With 1236 extractors to maintain, that's unusual. Around 1000 open PR's and growing. Other people have noticed... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29753 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29842 Black effectively abandoned themselves too after claiming to be the future during DMCA... https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc People now moving to this, which also does comments... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Youtube recently age-restricted everything good, and is blatantly and AI censoring everyone now. There are still some places where you can freely plug in... yt-dlp -o - 9ix7TUGVYIo | brain_interface