Episode Details

If you want to know what your browser is really sending, DevTools is the wrong instrument — it silently drops the initiator data that answers "which script fired this request." This episode walks through the three tap points for browser traffic (packet capture, intercepting proxies, and browser internals), why the HAR format is an abandoned spec that everything still emits, and the fidelity-versus-visibility tradeoff that comes with terminating TLS in the middle. Then we get into what researchers have actually found: a field registry of 3,919 unique fields across six AI chatbots, and structured tests suggesting privacy modes in Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok still transmit session-linked analytics to third parties. Episode #212649 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/212649