Open source/free software inherently relies on copyright and all state legal infrastructure. Once you operate outside, it's no longer open source/free software.
Can you host software in a way that's really hard to block? Sure. There is onion routing and plethora of other options.
But that's no longer open source/free software. You are in a realm of dark web and marketplaces.
I do maintain a semi popular open source project that I took over after about a year of inactivity and I seriously considered quiting because of CRA. It's quite easy to cripple/kill something when it basically runs on volunteering of your free time.
Your example with yt-dl doesn't matter.
Open source/free software inherently relies on copyright and all state legal infrastructure. Once you operate outside, it's no longer open source/free software.
Can you host software in a way that's really hard to block? Sure. There is onion routing and plethora of other options.
But that's no longer open source/free software. You are in a realm of dark web and marketplaces.
I do maintain a semi popular open source project that I took over after about a year of inactivity and I seriously considered quiting because of CRA. It's quite easy to cripple/kill something when it basically runs on volunteering of your free time.