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LightSparks' API... LightSpark has SOLE and COMPLETE and EXCLUSIVE access to the full lifecycle of a user's payment.
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So does Phoenix LSP. If they go down users can’t make payments. They also know where you send to and when you receive. Any LSP that does the route finding for a user knows the destination of the payment.
But again we’ve never claimed Spark is more private than Lightning.
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Get your facts straight. You can blame me all you want, but this is a complete misunderstanding of how Lightning works.
If the LSP knows the destination node, it knows the destination. period. And you don't understand how Phoenix works - they don't do source routing. They use they LSP as a trampoline nodes. They construct the path and they know the destination.
Moreover, even in cases of source routing - if the user is connected to a single LSP - the LSP effectively controls the path because the graph information is fed by the LSP...
And if you are referring to in-Spark transactions, the same issue exists in an in-LSP transaction... I.e. the sender and receiver are connected to the same LSP.
I recommended you a few times in the past not to overhype the privacy state of Lightning. I suggest you align your documentation with this: 

Lightning Privacy Research
Lightning Privacy Introduction | Lightning Privacy Research
An introduction to Lightning privacy