There does not seem to be such option, and neither do I see an open issue about this.
A few of them are about volume control, but I would encourage you to create a new issue asking specifically for default mute:
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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