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Why is Thunderbird making this connection?

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mozilla516
mozilla516

Just installed Thunderbird. Little Snitch (on Mac) alerted me to allow/deny a connection to location.services.mozilla.com

Why is it doing so?

Just installed Thunderbird. Little Snitch (on Mac) alerted me to allow/deny a connection to location.services.mozilla.com Why is it doing so?

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I believe it is used to determine in which country you are located, not to transmit back your exact location. https://location.services.mozilla.com/ itself does have some description.

For more information please see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-telemetry -

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mozilla516
mozilla516 Question owner

can't edit above, so to clarify, my question is: Why is TB trying to connect to that server, why does it want my location?

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I believe it is used to determine in which country you are located, not to transmit back your exact location. https://location.services.mozilla.com/ itself does have some description.

For more information please see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-telemetry -

mozilla516
mozilla516 Question owner

Thanks. Why would it need to know my location, whether exact or not?