If I add a file to IPFS, and no one ever requests it, does it ever leave my local computer?

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This is a general question about the inner-workings of IPFS. My question is that if I start a new daemon and add something to it, but never request it ever again (and assuming no one else ever requests it ever again) - will it stay on my computer locally or will some its blocks get preemptively transferred to other nodes?

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I believe that content would stay only on your machine. IPFS would not randomly start sending blocks of your content to other peers if there were no requests or knowledge of that content.

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