It seems to want to update all the time. Anyone else have this issue?
Yes, everyone else who uses Flash player. New vulnerabilities are found in the awful thing all the time so updates are frequently released to close them.
I wish I could just do without. I hate everything about it up to and including the sleazy McAffee they always try to shaft you with every time it updates.
Maybe you can do without it, a lot of content is HTML5 these days. If you use Firefox with Flashblock (which frees up a lot of system resources), set it to block Flash only and you'll get an idea of what you'd be missing.
Remember back in 1998 when you would click on a thumbnail and the picture would get larger instantly, rather than having to watch the whirly-gig thingy while flash works out how to show you an 800k image?
^Hahaha, good times!
It's this way with every Adobe product. You can set it to auto-update. But, that hardly ever seems to work correctly.
You can ignore its updates for a long time. Though security can be compromised by this. I tend to let it update every few weeks myself.
Be careful on the update to make darn sure you don't accidently install McAffee or the various web browser add-on's it constantly tried to sneak in on you. Click CAREFULLY on the agree button, and read what it said above it. Every once in a while I miss, and then have to spend the better part of an hour undoing whatever it did.
I haven't had flash player installed on most of my machines in years. I think I have one with it installed.
So my question would be, what do you need it for?
Tim Baxter wrote: I haven't had flash player installed on most of my machines in years. I think I have one with it installed. So my question would be, what do you need it for?
being the near Luddite that I am, I'll ask the question that goes along with your question …
I was ignoring the updates for months (maybe even yrs) and finally it got to the point where zero videos would play and I had to update … since then I've reverted to ignoring the updates … what alternatives are there ?
In reply to wbjones:
If the videos you watch require Flash, I would suggest you're better off not ignoring the updates - Flash seems to be so full of security holes it could find a second job as a colander.
If you are using Google Chrome or a recent IE, you don't need to update Flash itself as it's bundled with the browsers, but you need to keep the browsers updated.
I would also check if the videos you are interested in play with flash disabled and if that's the case, use something like a flashblock plugin to have you manually kick off flash only if you need it.
I'm using Safari
and the reason I finally had to update was none of the videos would play 
where are you watching videos that require Flash? Except for some silly games and a very few instances where people have not gotten their act together (or are actively relying on Flash's dodgy security), you don't need Flash at all. I use no alternative. Video is built into HTML these days, and I have no interest in playing Facebook games. I honestly can't remember the last time I went to a site that required Flash for anything I cared about.
Tim Baxter wrote: where are you watching videos that require Flash?
Most of my online training courses require Flash.
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