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The website is wrong, because you are not currently helping people in censored regions with FlashProxy.

The proxy cannot work when the enclosing page uses https. See FlashProxy's FAQ: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/FlashProxyFAQ

Aha! That explains why the corporate proxy blocked it as a "Botnet/Malicious outbound"

Thanks.

Sure am glad I run NoScript.

What the fuck? That is absolutely not cool.

Now you're on a terrorist watchlist.

Damn, I hope I didn't just eat a lot of my data plan. I am on iOS...

Luckily no Flash to speak of there.

Apparently, that's not what they mean:

"Flash proxy" is a name that should make you think "quick" and "short-lived." Our implementation uses standard web technologies: JavaScript and WebSocket. (In the long-ago past we used Adobe Flash, but do not any longer.)

http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/

That's truly unpleasant. I don't get how anybody thinks that is acceptable behavior.

The name is Flashproxy but it doesn't actually use Flash (it used to). It uses WebSocket.

Given the content of the page, I found that rather ironic.