I have noticed that KDE Neon also comes with the silly phone home connectivity check.

I have searched around and I got mixed results, in gnome one could go to Privacy Settings in Network Manager UI and disable this feature. Unfortunately there is no such option for the Neon. Other methods involve messing with the dbus or /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/30-connectivity-kde.conf.

I have tried every single setting area around the Systems Settings and could not find anything to do with Connectivity Check.

At this stage I have removed the 30-connectivity-kde.conf file, but I would like to know how to properly disable it so next upgrade cycle does not put it back (I could edit hosts file and add networkcheck.kde.org to point the "OK" file hosted locally, but that is too much of a hack).

Really appreciate your help.

I also would like to know what is the proper method? More importantly why is it not in the settings (gnome has it under privacy)?

The way I did it is by adding /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf
with:

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[connectivity]
.set.enabled=false