Disable What's New background requests? Telemetry?

[gerardroche]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

At startup, a background request is made to https://storybook.js.org/whats-new/v1.

There doesn't seem to be any way to disable it?

I have tried disabling Telemetry and What's New Notifications, but the latter only disables the notification, not the actual request.

The relevant code seems to make the request regardless of the disableTelemetry and disableWhatsNewNotifications configurations:

https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/blob/cbadd7403f2091444bb00d597820bc960971f8c6/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/whats-new.ts#L47C1-L73C53

Describe the solution you'd like

If the disablewhatsnewnotifications configuration is true then what's new background requests are not sent.

I think there is a reasonable expectation that if what's new notifications are disabled, then no remote requests made.

Describe alternatives you've considered

An additional configuration to disable what's new requests.

Are you able to assist to bring the feature to reality?

no

Additional context

No response