Do BIP 32 hierarchical deterministic wallets provide true privacy so that none of the transactions to or from the HD wallet can be linked together?
No, the idea behind HD wallets is that you only have to create a single backup. The transactions are made the same with other wallets. If the wallet you are using allows you to craft them by hand you might be able to achieve this, but this has nothing to do with HD or not.
Got it, I didn't understand that before.
I'm mainly interested in preventing everyone I pay from linking me to my main BTC wallet.
Use a mixer.
If a wallet uses a different address for each transaction, how can the addresses/transactions be linked to each other?
