How do I stop lightroom from uploading my photos to the cloud?

I just found this thread doing an internet search for "lightroom forcing me to use the cloud."  It's revealing to see the back and forth comments in this thread.  It says omething about peoples' ideologies.  Some people seem to like monopolies and others want choice.  Competition makes everything better in my opinion.  Lose the competition and choices eventually disapear.  Generally speaking about ideology, some people are ok with monopolies, or even prefer them, and others are not ok with it and like and want competition.  This is in peoples' DNA I think.  We are how we are.  Examples of this are scattered throughout these forums.  It is true that if you don't like it, then you don't have to buy it.  But this is the only choice in the sense that no other software comes close to what pros need, so that they can run a business and make a living.  I wish Adobe would understand this ideological difference in people, and create their products to accommodate everyone.  This would go a long way in making for a better user experience. But the way of the world seems to be less or no choice in many other aspects of business and life.  Such is life.

A nice workflow I have is to use Lightroom Classic to store my whole library, then create a collection that syncs with Lightroom, I only add the files I want in the cloud to this collection.

Steps:

1.  Create a collection
2.  In the options check the box 'Sync with Lightroom' and 'Set as target collection' (not required but useful)
3.  Add photos you want in the cloud to this collection

The option 'Set as target collection' is useful because you can just press the 'B' key to add a photo quickly to that collection or click the grey circle top right on a thumbnail.

If you don't see the option 'Sync with Lightroom' when you create a collection just click the cloud icon top right of the module picker to enable sync.

Lightroom CC uploads everything to the cloud. That is how it is intended to work. You can’t turn this off. If you don’t want your images in the cloud, use Lightroom Classic CC instead.

Is this happening with photos you shoot with your phone?