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Just fyi, all your non-HTTP Flash traffic (Flash sockets) is probably not being proxied at all. Even if you have a SOCKS proxy set in the browser.

The easiest way around this is VPN, but you can also do crazier stuff like use ProxyCap (for windows or OSX) or iptables redirect/transocks setup in Linux: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/how-to-force-flash-o...

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Linux has tsocks and proxychains which override the connect() method with a LD_PRELOAD library and force traffic to go through a socks proxy. Easier than iptables since at least proxychains can be installed with apt-get on Ubuntu(don't know about other OSes).

Only problem with the LD_PRELOAD method is that it doesn't work for all (many) apps. I believe one case it breaks for is non blocking connect()s, not sure if there are others. Although the iptables setup is a lot more complicated it pretty much works for everything.

An example I have found is rtorrent. There is also https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle, which looks promising, but I haven't used it. My vps provider doesn't provide tap for openvpn to work.

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