WireGlobe

Visualizes network requests in real time on a world map.

WireGlobe shows you, in real time, which servers worldwide your browser actually talks to. Every outgoing request appears as an animated arc on a world map. From your geolocated origin to the destination with country, city, category, latency, and data size. The conceptual successor to Mozilla Lightbeam, rebuilt for modern Chrome. What you see • Animated arcs from your origin to every request destination • Persistent destination dots for every city your browser ever reached. Click any of them to filter the view • Country heatmap derived from your active traffic • Request log with search, grouping by domain / category / country / city, and per-request URL parameter inspection • 15 colour-coded domain categories: six ad/tracker subcategories (ads, identity sync, analytics, recommendations, verification, social) plus major platforms, AI providers, CDNs, and uncategorised traffic • Per-category mute chips with live counts • Tracker shield: one click hides all six tracking categories • Scope filter: current page, current tab, current window, or all windows • Eight themes including Earth (realistic geography), Hacker (CRT terminal), Colorblind (IBM CUD palette), Synthwave (80s neon) • Full keyboard navigation, prefers-reduced-motion support, German and English localization WireGlobe Pro (€19 lifetime or €3 / month) • Data watchlist: enter your email or phone number once. WireGlobe alerts you the moment it's sent to a third party. Locally hashed (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Base64, URL-encoded) for matching; values themselves are never transmitted. • Lifetime heatmap: persistent country footprint that survives browser restarts. • Tracker translator: every cryptic tracking parameter (cmt=5.035, tid=…, …) gets a plain-language explanation in the request details panel. Privacy by design • No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no accounts. • Per-request data never persists across browser restarts. Buffers, cache, and watchlist matching live in session storage only. • Outbound traffic is limited to two endpoints on our own Cloudflare Worker: geo lookup for destination IPs your browser is already contacting, and weekly Pro license re-validation. Nothing else leaves the browser. • URLs are scrubbed of OAuth tokens, session IDs, SAML responses, AWS signatures, password-reset links, and other credentials before being stored. A redaction layer with 130+ test assertions ships with the extension at tests/privacy.test.html so you can audit it yourself. • No request bodies, cookies, or headers are read or stored (except Content-Length for the size display). Permissions • webRequest: read-only metadata about outgoing requests (no blocking, no body access). • sidePanel: render the UI. • storage: local cache and preferences. • tabs / webNavigation: identify which requests belong to which page (for the scope filter). • alarms: weekly Pro license re-validation. • host_permissions on all URLs: required because trackers can be on any domain. A domain whitelist would defeat the purpose. Full privacy policy: https://peakstateapps.pages.dev/privacy