Vinegar - Tube Cleaner 4+

Better video player

And a Dinosaur

    • £1.99

Description

Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag.

It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and keeps videos playing in the background.

Note: The "can read information from webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording. Vinegar needs access to the web page to find the YouTube player and replace it. It's not doing anything creepy!

(By the way, check out Vinegar's companion app, Baking Soda. It's basically a less powerful version of Vinegar, but it works on all websites other than YouTube.)

What’s New

Version 3.0.2

Vinegar:
- Stop YouTube from taking back control of the video player.

Vinegar Extract:
- (iPhone-only) Removed the empty space above the video player when the toolbar is hidden.
- Updated icon size.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
65 Ratings

65 Ratings

Porrohman_ ,

Very useful & good but could be better

This solves the problem & works well, however the issue I have is that the gestures are non standard. It surely should emulate what it’s replacing.

It’s almost impossible to do the 2 finger spread to go full screen without it fast forwarding the video as well, it doesn’t support pinch to go back to the normal display, instead swipe down does this but for some bizarre reason it also pauses the video.

I’ve knocked off a star because of these puzzling deficiencies, but I’m still very grateful for what it does. I hope it can be standardized at some point though & then it would be perfect.

Vima2000 ,

Great app to avoid YT ads

However, with the latest YT layout changes I'm facing a couple of issue: 1-) on Safari iPhone, the video is quite fidgety to press on the full screen icon. 2-) on MacOs SAfari, I still can't see the theatre mode button even after upgrading to Vinegar 2.5.4

Edit: after I submitted my comment, I decided to restart Safari on both devices (iPhone and macOS) and now Vinegar is work well again! I recommend people to upgrade to Vinegar 2.5.4 and restart Safari to make sure you pick the update properly while watching YT.

MortalArtistryOnInstagram ,

Does the job

Perfectly does what I need it to. Ad-blockers have those momentary black screens and then the video starts again, this just runs smoothly. My only issue is it completely removes videos from appearing in my history which would be nice if you could have an option to turn that off since now my recommended page is just full of the same videos.

App Privacy

The developer, And a Dinosaur, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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