[throwaway2016a]

> mitmproxy is indeed great, in fact, this service is build on mitmproxy instances :)

I can appreciate this. Pre-configured / zero config open source software as a service is a useful thing. Not everyone wants to install, configure, and deal with command line tools.

Are there tradeoffs? Sure. Would I personally make those tradeoffs? No. But I am sure some people will.

[tarnacious_]

This is my thoughts too. I wouldn't think it is very useful to most mitmproxy/fiddler/charles power users.

But not having to install something, find your IP address, open your firewall etc, allows some users who don't want to do all this to start using a debugging proxy without having to. I'm not sure how many of these users exist though, we will see!