It helps, but you don't explicitly need it. Set for privacy offers a remote node, however trusted, it's not the same.

Where it helps is for quick syncs and wallet balance checks

But ideally, if you have the hardware and bandwidth, download your own node.

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Yeah! The quick sync is the best thing of a personal node. Thank you for your input.

*seth for privacy

you can find his remote node settings and then hook up if/when you want. I'm sure there are others that do the same too.