In the mid-2000s, IT administrators utilized keyword filtering and blacklists to block gaming sites like AddictingGames, Miniclip, and Kongregate. Students retaliated by accessing "mirror" sites—often unsecured Google Sites, educational wikis repurposed for game hosting, or dedicated proxy domains (e.g., "unblockedgames66," "unblockedme").
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Following the deprecation and eventual "End of Life" of Adobe Flash on December 31, 2020, the landscape of unblocked gaming shifted. While native Flash support vanished from browsers, BTD3 survived through emulation. In the mid-2000s