WireGlobe

Tracking since May 27, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 3, 2026
  description

  NetGlobe 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
  
  NetGlobe Pro (€19 lifetime or €3 / month)
  
  • Data watchlist: enter your email or phone number once. NetGlobe 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

  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

• Jun 3, 2026
  name

  NetGlobe

  WireGlobe

Permissions & access

Permissions

webRequestsidePanelstoragetabswebNavigationalarms

Host access

<all_urls>, https://netglobe-geo-proxy.cardgate.workers.dev/*

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