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In a typical Lightning transaction, receiver privacy is better than monero in this respect:
In monero, the sender always knows the recipient's "real" address (the one on the blockchain) and can provably map it to their stealth address.
But in lightning payments, the invoice has to tell you the pubkey of the *node* which received the payment (though you can spoof it), but that pubkey doesn't contain any money. It's like a stealth address in monero, except the sender *cannot* map it to the *real* address that received the money, or at least, not necessarily.
There are *some* people who've managed to figure out the receiver's address on the blockchain just from their lightning invoice, but even that information is spoofable. In monero, it isn't. So even in this respect, LN > Monero.
Also, it is wonderful to hide your lightning node from the sender, and is similar to not showing your monero stealth address to the sender. But in monero, there's no tools for that. In lightning, blinded paths are becoming standard. So LN is way better.
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