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wuxb

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 29

Why gnome-shell makes network connection by itself on startup?

I have a very *clean* gnome-shell desktop environment installed. Randomly I use 'ss -utp' to see that application other than my web browser is making network connection to the outside world, I found something.

After a reboot and logged in to Gnome-shell, there are several DNS lookups and connection is established to "proxy02.gnome.org" at 209.132.180.168 and than a connection is established to "ec2-54-246-211-38.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com" at 54.246.211.38. That site turns out to be "Mozilla Location Service". Yes I think I know what it is. It's seems to be the Gnome-shell's integrated location service.

If it's it, there is a big problem. I disabled it long long time ago just after it appeared on the head bar... So how can gnome shell decide to make a network connection after I explicitly told it not to? Though I believe it's really not about to do some bad things, but the reason why I switched to Linux for years is just to be able to get a more trustable OS on my stuff.

Sorry about the complaint. I chose to use it and they said "THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM" in the GPL. I just want to know Is there is a "MAGIC" setting or config file for me to "REALLY" disable it.

Thanks!

wuxb

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 29

Re: Why gnome-shell makes network connection by itself on startup?

masked geoclue in systemd.