I found there were a lot of edge cases with data URIs that made sharing them kinda annoying. Like email providers stripping the data URI when you email it (not getting spam-binned. The link would get deleted. Even if you left it as a plain text email.)
Firefox doesn't appear to have a URL length limit. Unfortunately, the world is standardising on Chrome, and that absolutely does (about 2,097,152 characters for the entire URI). Chrome also _sometimes_, but not always, opens a data:text/html link in Quirks Mode.