

This protects your sensitive data, but also means we can't customize the Thunderbird start page once you have donated or decided not to donate.

We want to protect the privacy and data that belongs to our donors, which means we limit how much "tracking" information and data we send across systems.

However, all donations are entirely voluntary. To read more about this transition-why it was made, what it means for the future of Thunderbird-please check out this blog post from January: Īs for the contribution appeals you're still seeing, Thunderbird’s funding comes almost exclusively from the generosity of our users, and so we do have donation appeals on our website and on the default start page of the client. Since Thunderbird moved from under the Mozilla Foundation to the MZLA Technologies Corporation, it is no longer a nonprofit entity, and therefore not a charity. Hello, parkhurs! Thanks for your question.
