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Opting-out is not optional and is the opposite of private.
Being real here? Anyone that can't see the damn button for it during initial setup isn't going to give a damn.
Best practices? No. Opt in only should be the default. But that's still about choice, not whether or not telemetry is inherently a bad thing. But if someone is too damn lazy to look at the settings of a program when they first use it, that's pretty damn stupid. But, hey, people in general are stupid.
There's no "initial button". Installing Firefox on mobile you'll have technical data collection, marketing (with a third party) data collection, and "random studies" enabled without a clue. As someone that is very wary of this, I can assure you that at no point I was asked anything about sending data to "Adjust" (marketing partner), Mozilla, or allowing random, unknown at the time, studies.