United StatesVinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag. It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and allows videos to play in the background when set to audio-only quality. Note: The phrase 'can read and alter webpages' in the permissions section is just an unfortunate choice of words. Vinegar needs access to the webpage to find the YouTube player and replace it. It's not doing anything creepy! (Also, do check out Vinegar's companion app, Baking Soda. It's essentially a less powerful version of Vinegar, but it works on all websites except YouTube.)
Great but needs livestream support
One of the best parts about YT streams is being able to rewind at any point in the stream and you can’t do that with this extension. Would love if this extension and the Mac version supported that!
United StatesThis is just getting worse and worse
We all know that this is one person (or maybe a handful) trying to combat one of the largest, and most evil, corporations on the planet. They used to have frequent updates (daily or weekly). As of this review, it has been over a month since their last update. Obviously, Google has performed many behind-the-scenes idiocy in this time. So, the viewing experience of using Vinegar just gets worse, and worse, and worse. If you need more money, charge more. If you need monthly subscriptions, do it. But this app is in the worst place it has ever been (in my opinion) in the very long time I have owned it.
United StatesCould be great but don’t waste your time.
I’m changing my rating from around a 4 to a 2. The original Vinegar still “works” even though it has strange glitches that cause the video to start over and other odd anomalies. It’s annoying but if it’s your only choice, it’s tolerable. The thing is, it’s not the only choice. The fact that this still costs money when it is inferior to the experience of using the free PiPifier (that does the same thing, better) seems scammy especially considering the lack of initiative to fix these issues or be transparent about them. It’s become a nuisance to use and no configuration or toggling off ad blockers extensions, etc, fixes the issues. Vinegar Extract was supposed to fix a lot of the aforementioned issues as well as simplifying its features, in turn possibly making it more compatible with ad blockers. While it did fix the video starting over it introduced all kinds of display issues. The video player literally covers the video title half the time or has a weird black gap between the top of the page and top of the video player. It’s an eyesore. If the original Vinegar wasn’t still somewhat usable I would give it a 1 to deter others from spending money, however small, on something that unfortunately doesn’t appear to even work correctly. The recent update doesn’t fix these outstanding issues. It’s too bad too because given the settings features this should be a far more premium experience than free options. Nope. I’ll gladly change my rating and/or delete it when this is no longer the case.
United StatesIt works!
After unchecking the Adblock extensions, this worked really well. I do go back and reactivate Adblock after done.
United StatesPlays video from the start
The extension causes the video to play from the beginning even with a timestamp “t” parameter on the URL
United StatesUnable to record volume settings
Overall very good, but volume is a big problem, No matter how I adjust the volume, it will automatically return to the previous level after 10 to 30 seconds. This is a huge nuisance and makes me have to turn it off when I want to watch YouTube.
United StatesBlocks ads
Well, that’s it right now. *Video quality doesn’t change, namely the “audio only” mode. *Stops playing the first time you exit out of safari, have to play it again via pull up/down control *no next/previous track control. For the money I expected more I know the devs are playing cat and mouse with YouTube, hope they catch up soon.
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- Stop YouTube from taking back control of the video player. Vinegar Extract
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