Comment by bmelton

    > i discovered that there was a arc featured called easels, easels 
    > are a whiteboard like interface, and you can share them with people, 
    > and they can view them on the web. when i clicked the share button 
    > however, there was no requests in my mitmproxy instance, so whats 
    > happening here?

I first noticed this on a flight to Paris. I was building a Flutter app using Firestore, and tho I had not paid for the onboard wifi (I was doing local development) I was connected and all of my Firestore calls were succeeding.

I thought this was novel, and assumed it was just something to do with websockets, so I switched to another, non-firebase-but-yes-websockets project and noticed it didn't work.

At the time, I debated moving calls to Firebase just so that I could work for free while I was on flights, but realized the ROI wasn't remotely there. Glad to finally have someone else acknowledge it happening, and give some insight as to why.