diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py b/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py
index 8f36c54..9bb080f 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/core/config.py
@@ -15,15 +15,9 @@ from .module import BaseModule
 
 from typing import Any, List, Type, Tuple
 
-yaml: YAML = YAML()
+_yaml: YAML = YAML()
 
-b = yaml.load("""
-          # This is a comment
-          site.com,site2.com:
-            key: value
-            key2: value2
-          """)
-EMPTY_CONFIG = yaml.load("""
+EMPTY_CONFIG = _yaml.load("""
 # Auto Archiver Configuration
 # Steps are the modules that will be run in the order they are defined
 
@@ -149,7 +143,7 @@ def read_yaml(yaml_filename: str) -> CommentedMap:
     config = None
     try:
         with open(yaml_filename, "r", encoding="utf-8") as inf:
-            config = yaml.load(inf)
+            config = _yaml.load(inf)
     except FileNotFoundError:
         pass
 
@@ -166,4 +160,4 @@ def store_yaml(config: CommentedMap, yaml_filename: str) -> None:
 
     config_to_save.pop('urls', None)
     with open(yaml_filename, "w", encoding="utf-8") as outf:
-        yaml.dump(config_to_save, outf)
\ No newline at end of file
+        _yaml.dump(config_to_save, outf)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py b/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py
index a451443..473f882 100644
--- a/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py
+++ b/src/auto_archiver/core/orchestrator.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from rich_argparse import RichHelpFormatter
 
 from .metadata import Metadata, Media
 from auto_archiver.version import __version__
-from .config import yaml, read_yaml, store_yaml, to_dot_notation, merge_dicts, EMPTY_CONFIG, DefaultValidatingParser
+from .config import _yaml, read_yaml, store_yaml, to_dot_notation, merge_dicts, EMPTY_CONFIG, DefaultValidatingParser
 from .module import available_modules, LazyBaseModule, get_module, setup_paths
 from . import validators, Feeder, Extractor, Database, Storage, Formatter, Enricher
 from .module import BaseModule
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class AuthenticationJsonParseAction(JsonParseAction):
                         auth_dict = json.load(f)
                     except json.JSONDecodeError:
                         # maybe it's yaml, try that
-                        auth_dict = yaml.load(f)
+                        auth_dict = _yaml.load(f)
             except:
                 pass