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Forgive the naive question, but to pair with the GP, thoughts:

1. Wouldnt this also be helpful in understanding the exact nature of all traffic/calls against a particular page, user-workflow matriculating through your site from a UX perspective?

2. Could one make a proxy from this on a local home egress such that you could see the nature of outbound network traffic to site you visit (more importantly, traffic heading to 3rd-party trackers/cookies' APIs via your site visits?

3. Could it be used to nefariously map open API endpoints against a system one is (whiteHat) pen testing?

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