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It just pulls them from YouTube (likely). So no, but I would worry more about malware with shady apps in the Playstore. Often you can find good open source alternatives. In this case Newpipe.
Just an FYI, youtube-dl is very much still active -- their latest commit was 8 hours ago at the time of writing. But that commit was literally backporting a feature from yt-dlp (the new extraction engine) so... Yeah. Probably just stick with dlp anyways.
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