Want to get rid of Adobe Flash pop up with s.ytime.com storage. Help please.

Are you seeing a window telling you to update Flash? If so, that's all you need to do, although to be safe you should only update by going to www.adobe.com, clicking the Downloads button at the top of the page, then clicking the Get Adobe Flash Player button.

Okay, try this: Go to System Preferences and open the Flash Player pane. Then select the Storage tab. If you're not interested in allowing Flash apps to store data on your machine, set the preference on that pane to "Block all sites from storing information on this computer," then click the Delete All button and delete all data. Alternately, you could click "Local storage settings by site" and set it to Block (instead of Ask Me or Allow) for s.ytime.com. (This will also remove the data that may already be stored for that site.)

I'm not sure why things are freezing up, though... you may want to go ahead and reinstall Flash as well. You also may want to install the ClickToFlash Safari extension:

http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/

Google Chrome seems to be causing some grief all round.

The Adobe Flash Player plug-in (which should be accessible to all browsers) can be found at

Macintosh HD > Library > Internet Plugins

There are two files;

Flash Player.plugin

flashplayer.xpt

Check the version of the plugin (just select it and read the version in the next column)

Version 11.1 or higher should put a preference pane in System Preferences;

The current version of Flash is 11.3.300.268

Some websites insist on storing LSOs (aka Flash Cookies) before they'll work properly, so just denying the file won't allow the streaming content (the BBC has pulled a similar trick with iPlayer).

There is a way round that without actually allowing the file to store, but it's a bit work.

I'll dig up the procedure and post it here if you wish.

First you need Flash, though. Get it only direct from Adobe on the above link.

I had a problem with flash player installed, my trackpad had a slight pause and skip to it after installing. Do you guys know an option that I can change that might fix this? As soon as I uninstalled flash the pause/skip went away but id like to have flash for youtube. I did d/l directly from adobe and it was the lastest version.

I went to Adobe, as you recommended, and researched. I followed their explicit instructions

What instructions? You need to go to:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

and just download and install Flash Player.

Due to security issues, a recent system update disabled all versions of Flash that were way too old to safely use. I imagine that's what happened to you. You really have to keep up with Flash updates, or your computer's security can be severely compromised!

Wow.. I was experiencing the same problem as Seeker was, and you were right Thomas.. 😮 After following your directions ~whala~ everything is working A-OK now!!

Thank you so much!! ~~~ 🙂

Thanks! The instructions in your second post (re System Preferences) seems to have worked on my iMac. After following, them I checked out several YouTube videos and haven't had any further problems ... so far!

This solution worked for me.

First I tried (several times) "Allow Sites to save information on this computer" but that didn't stop the window from continually reappearing.

So then I tried "Block all sites from storing information on this computer" and that did work - immediately. 🙂