GNOME vs KDE privacy-wise

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its opt in I believe and it asks you whether you want to enable it on first use

Yes.
There are images of the opt-in telemetry prompt and setting in this post for those interested:

Fedora still a good choice?

To ease any concerns you may have about this, the telemetry proposal that @pinkandwhite linked applies only to the GNOME variant of Fedora (aka “Fedora Workstation”). It does not apply to the KDE variant of Fedora. See the following comment by the person who proposed it: F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide) - #118 by catanzaro - Fedora Discussion KDE already has an implementation of telemetry that is OPT-IN. That is, it is disabled by default. …