Yes, if you are paying an Lightning Invoice with LightSpark's API, the funds will go from their custody (their Lightning Node), onto the Lightning Network. So in this case David Marcus won't have full end-to-end visibility into this payment. However, YOUR user is still fucked. He's got their IP address, payment history, amounts, balance, basically everything. But you are right if the RECEIVER is using the Lightning Network, instead of the Spark API, then yes, the RECEIVER gets some security.

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So there's an interesting question. If a Blitz users only uses Spark for Lightning swaps and also uses a VPN would you consider that ok. There’s no cross link between users and lightspark doesn’t have the IP. Plus, they don’t know who sent or revived the payments from that user.