mitmproxy

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with mitmproxy, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Keyboard shortcut based terminal navigation is harder to use than the web frontend2025-12-20
Has to configure the proxy in each app, with quite a bit of setup2025-02-03
Over time the whole computer becomes unusable until mitmproxy is restarted2022-03-20
Manual proxy setup is hard, e.g. intercepting Android or Node.js requires many steps2021-12-20
Getting started is confusing and the user can't find the shortcuts in the command line tool2018-02-24
Couldn't figure out how to enable decompression for compressed traffic2018-02-24
Had to fiddle with settings to avoid slow browsing; performance was hard to get right2016-12-26