Free Shockwave Player
 

I have un-installed Adobe Shockwave Player yet another security alert and when I updated to a new version lost all sound on the Internet, that was the final straw. :hulk:

Anyone know of a good free one that will not download other junk on to my PC without me knowing until its on. :arrgh!:

YouTube is alright but BBC News and few others are no go.

Win8.1

shockwave and flash are licensed and controlled by adobe. If the page uses shockwave, for example - you have to have that plugin to make it run. Same with flash.

Simply put - there is no good way to get around it.

Nuts! :/\\!!

Thanks, just see how I get on without it.

With YouTube and certain other sites you can use DownloadHelper which plugin available to Mozilla Firefox. If for any reason video fails to play on site I just download it, watch it and discard it (I don't have space for all the junk...). This however does not work everywhere.

I do believe DownloadHelper works with mosts sites that stream video.
I've used it on about dozen different sites. :yep:

The 'thing' with Adobe Shockwave Player is not to let it automatically update - the default install. Yes it will add programs I don't want either if permitted to auto-update.

I've always ticked the choice to "Notify me when an update is available", then when I am notified, un-tick the 'Google Toolbar' or whatever piece of cr*p software the Install wants to include.

Never had a problem with Adobe Shockwave Player going back through Win ME, Win XP, or Win 7 64x which I'm currently using, by manually installing the updates when notified and un-ticking the extras.

I use Firefox and the Add-on Extension "Flash Video Downloader - YouTube HD downloader 6.9.2" by Nimbus Web Inc to download most any flash.

Hope that helps. : )