OK, so it is true then that if you use Electrum (or Sparrow I heard?) and just stay away from any coin that doesn't have a 3rd party wallet that can interact with the Ledger in place of Ledger Live, Ledger can't see your IP address? The first part of the above statement seems to say the opposite, whereas the second kind of says that explicitly. From my scant knowledge of even the basics of how wallets and everything else interact with the internet (I know, I'm as good as fucked) it was always my understanding that avoiding LL was the solution to avoiding Ledger updates--especially the one introducing Recover--but when I fooled around with my Ledger I never really considered IP addresses.
If you connect your hardware wallet directly to Electrum or Sparrow for example, Ledger can't see your ip addresses. But if you do so without running your own node or connecting Electrum to your own server or Sparrow to your own node, the public or random server you are connected to would know your ip addresses and BTC addresses, and not Ledger this time.
That is why i said that if you use any wallet at all, without running your own node and connecting to it, then you do not have complete privacy because the random server you connect to can spy on you.