In a nutshell the means of receiving and sending is more privacy centric with Monero

The Bitcoin ledger allows tracing addresses through transactions back to their original issuance. This helps perform verification at the cost of privacy on that backward history as entities can log what they know about sender/receiver.

Monero uses a ring signature format which helps make those transactions more confidential for spends. Think of a group where anyone can sign but you cant ascertain who in the group actually signed. The amounts are also hidden and for receiving stealth addresses are used.

For Bitcoin to achieve some pseudo-privacy requires various forms of obfuscation. Commonly mixing and coinjoins, stonewalls, send to exchange/federation/hub and withdraw (that central trust point can in some cases correlate depending on time in and amounts), swap to other coin(s) and back

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xmr is like btc with a coinjoin-like-function built in

It is much stronger that that. The built in "coinjoin-like-function" of Ring Signatures (15 decoys) are only 1 of 4 layers of Monero privacy tech. It is one of the weakest parts and only for senders. Dandelion++ also obfuscates IP origination.

The parts that make Monero really shine are:

Confidential Transactions completely hides amount

Stealth Addresses completely hides reciever

Simple example of a Monero transaction:

~6% chance Alice sent $[?] to [?]

Unlike simple coinjoins, the transaction graph connecting senders to recievers doesn't exist. Amounts are not available to analyze either. All you could know from just looking at a blockchain transaction is a 64-character string maybe signed a Monero transaction.

How much? To who? That is unknown.