Yeah even linux isn't immune. Red Hat is considering enabling their "telemetry" by default (because rug pulling CentOS wasnt enough to piss off their community) https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320

Adding in preinstalled spyware is being considered over at red hat because apparently they haven't passed off their community enough pulling CentOS. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320