They already did this way back with their other telemetry stuff. You had to disable it through about:config and then Mozilla introduced new flags/renamed them and even added a flag if you have disabled telemetry that you had to disable again manually.
It might be possible to disable this feature through a policy file [1] just like other features can be disabled, e.g. here's how to disable auto-update:
{
"policies":
{
"DisableAppUpdate": true
}
}
Create a text file named policies.json in a directory named distribution inside the Firefox installation directory. In my case that ends up looking like this: