You don’t need to run your own node.
Just make sure you don’t use a wallet that uploads your view keys to the node…
not true. watch the leaked Chainalysis video (e.g. currently available at https://odysee.com/@nyxmr:d/chainalysis:f, may not be in the future). they did a lot of their correlations by running nodes and observing transactions that were directly submitted through those nodes.
run your own full node.
I have 10 public xmr nodes (all listed on my site as well):
185.218.124.120:18089 185.218.124.120:18189 185.218.124.120:18289 185.218.124.120:18389 185.218.124.120:18489 185.218.124.120:18589 185.218.124.120:18689 185.218.124.120:18789 185.218.124.120:18889 185.218.124.120:18989
All hosted via mynymbox.io using contabo servers (Germany). Not sure why the above post lists one of my nodes as a proxy (or the other way around) for another node. Happy to provide any documentation to prove my nodes are non-malicious.
Great read, thank you for sharing