diff --git a/net-misc/youtube-dl/Manifest b/net-misc/youtube-dl/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index a0a1ab7aa2..0000000000
--- a/net-misc/youtube-dl/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST youtube-dl-2021.12.17.tar.gz 3332299 BLAKE2B 5c798ad1f54f06cc42fd9a538536310e1084a02ec96969ff8e85ef0c6487ef54f34d58858512ade8b279929d8ebb9dda48175302fa23af9833c2301daa1d49c2 SHA512 bfc8280703b08f66e1108e9ebd9ab4689f064ac7cef03bd3d1fd2bc64928570e4376e389c9bc188eafdbcd74444cfc8aeccc83ee362ad4f478910efef3573ddb
diff --git a/net-misc/youtube-dl/metadata.xml b/net-misc/youtube-dl/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index f4fbb6fe29..0000000000
--- a/net-misc/youtube-dl/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<!-- maintainer-needed -->
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">ytdl-org/youtube-dl</remote-id>
-		<remote-id type="pypi">youtube-dl</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-misc/youtube-dl/youtube-dl-2021.12.17.ebuild b/net-misc/youtube-dl/youtube-dl-2021.12.17.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c4e467feac..0000000000
--- a/net-misc/youtube-dl/youtube-dl-2021.12.17.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} )
-inherit distutils-r1 shell-completion
-
-DESCRIPTION="youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes"
-HOMEPAGE="https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ytdl-org/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"
-
-LICENSE="Unlicense"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
-# Disable test suite because it is two slow and require network access
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/pycryptodome[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	!net-misc/yt-dlp
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-	sed -i 's|etc/bash_completion.d|share/bash-completion/completions|' setup.py || die
-	sed -i 's|etc/fish/completions|share/fish/vendor_completions.d|' setup.py || die
-	sed -i '/youtube-dl.bash-completion/d' setup.py || die
-	sed -i '/README.txt/d' setup.py || die
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	dodoc "${S}"/{AUTHORS,ChangeLog,README.*}
-	doman "${S}"/youtube-dl.1
-	newbashcomp "${S}"/youtube-dl.bash-completion "${PN}"
-	dofishcomp "${S}"/youtube-dl.fish
-	newzshcomp "${S}"/youtube-dl.zsh "_${PN}"
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 305c8feb63..5a2c7a5f8e 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ dev-cpp/wangle
 # Removal on 2024-09-05
 dev-python/sphinx-version-warning
 
-# David Roman <davidroman96@gmail.com> (2024-08-05)
-# No maintainer, we already have yt-dlp on ::gentoo.
-# Removal on 2024-09-05
-net-misc/youtube-dl
-
 # Pascal Jaeger <pascal.jaeger@leimstift.de> (2024-06-29)
 # Package is renamed to 'dissent'
 # Newer versions do not build in portage because of dependency