The ‘Unsaved’ Draft Illusion: Why Your Web IDE Is Spying on Every Keystroke
We’ve all typed a secret into the wrong box and frantically hit backspace, trusting the ‘unsaved’ draft to protect us. But in modern web IDEs like CodePen 2.0, typing is transmitting. Live previews and autocomplete require sending every keystroke to the server before you ever hit save. The ‘Save’ button is a lie.