They are one and the same.

I guess I just assumed they’d remove the telemetry, but yeah, shouldn’t assume.

I’m not following your logic here. Why would you want to get rid of ReVanced? It’s not a Google product any more than other alternative frontends, right?

Depends on your threat model. If you use secure DNS and https for the RSS feed, then these people would know your IP and the IP you’re connecting to:

• the DNS provider
• the RSS server
• your ISP/ VPN server

Your ISP or VPN will know you’ve made a TCP connection to that server at a specified port, but that’s it. It’s trivial for them to reverse lookup the IP back into a name.

Only the RSS server will know the specific URL you’re visiting though.