I am unsure how to turn off the usage statistic collection. There is no option I am aware of, but you can
run from source and edit the code where it does the connection. (I did not figure out where, but I haven't really looked.)
If updates are turned off, it will not even check. Updates are checked
here which calls the code
here which says:
Code:
if not opts.no_update_check:
self.update_checker = CheckForUpdates(self)
calling the update checker only if
PHP Code:
no_update_check = False