I tested this a few years ago.

You can play Save the World alone but as soon as someone joins the party, it kicks you.

I wanted to play Fortnite again but after seeing Epic to approve the AI Slop in their shop, I deleted my account and never looked back.

Their post looks AI generated.

I don’t think telemetry is inherently bad though, it’s nice to have some information to fix stuff but it should be transparent and the data shouldn’t be sold.