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I'm not sure what all data they get if you self-host their controller. I'm pretty sure you don't have to make a unifi cloud account at setup, you can make a local one. You can turn off the collection of diagnostic data at setup. Now that's not to say they don't send it anyway,
they send it anyways; or atleast they used to circa 2020.
i did packet captures while evaluating their hardware back then for work and they always phone home no matter what you do.