Never use Electrum unless you're hosting your own backend. There is no telling how many public Electrum servers are run by chain analysis companies and other adversaries that are in the business of attributing IP addresses to UTXOs.

Electrum was a great piece of software 10 years ago, but the surveillance landscape has changed a lot since then and it is not really safe to use it in its default state.

TLDR: run your own Electrum backend or don't use Electrum.

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what wallet should i use so?

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Any way around this? Tor?

Tor doesn't help because Electrum bulk requests all your addresses from the remote server. At best Tor will keep your IP private but all your addresses are correlated as belonging to the same entity the moment you connect.

Damn, so we need to get a node up and running to avoid this?

It never fucking ends. Thanks for the info, I'll admit I hadn't considered this situation.

Also worth noting that unless things have changed, default install auto connects to some server on launch unless the user manually makes adjusts config file. Overall, Electrum is bad for privacy.

if you're not gonna run your own node, Wasabi might be the best light wallet to run these days privacy-wise, coinjoin functionality/drama aside