Joe Scotch wrote:

All that matters to me, from a privacy standpoint, is only what the NewPipe
people get and what Google get by way of my information.

EVERY webcentric program you run results in the other endpoint knowing
your IP address. Even if you use a VPN, the VPN provider knows your IP
address. Your web browser, e-mail client, telnet client, FTP client,
VPN client, and anything else connecting out results in the target
server getting your IP address.

All the NewPipe site can see, and only if you download from their site,
is your IP address when you downloaded their file. Obviously they need
your IP address to know where to deliver the file.

Am I correct that the NewPipe site gets nothing whatsoever

There is no "NewPipe site" regarding your traffic. The site is to only
provide a download of a file (NewPipe). Read the F-Droid and author's
site and even the GitHub repository. You will find NO MENTION of any
proxy service operated by NewPipe. It is just a local client, like any
other player. It parses the web pages delivered by Youtube and then
retrieves the stream that Youtube found. The parsing code is the
author's work in this app. The player components are borrowed from
other open source projects.