I moved from NewPipe to PipePipe a few weeks ago. It’s so good, simply the best YT frontend I’ve ever used.

Amazing. I’ll get there hopefully.

Looks like you and I randomly generate usernames :D

though I still haven’t been able to give up YouTube yet. At least I’m never signed in.

That’s good! Since you’re not logged in, you might want to try PipePipe, which is a fork of Newpipe. The only reason to stick with the official YouTube client is for the recommendations, but even then, I’d suggest checking out Morphe (https://morphe.software/). It’s an alternative to YouTube Revanced that patches the official client to remove ads and add other features.

Knowing that Google isn’t peeking over my shoulder on my GrapheneOS phone is very freeing.

I definitely relate to that feeling!