Vinegar - Tube Cleaner 4+
Better video player
And a Dinosaur
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- $1.99
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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
Great stuff, but
The only thing I would like to change about this is the ability to either pause and play with the controls on the Lock Screen, or the pull down menu once I close the app on the Home Screen. Both of these options to pause and play the music are either available or disappear completely sometimes.
Also in a playlist, you must refresh the page to pause and play in the background, which has the same inconsistencies above of course.
Was amazing up until about a month ago
I will change my stars back to five is this ever gets fixed, but as of now, its pretty impoosible to use across all platforms (MacOS, iOS, iPadOS) Weird thing is that each device does something else. All devices have the same issues in full screen mode where when the video file updates, it will shrink to the wondow size or theater size, almost all the time the video will stop working at some random reload point. Also, in MacOS it wont load the next video on a playlist.
I've been using this app for over a year now with zero issues. But now its to annoyingly broken that I cant really use it at all. I hope this gets fixed soon. I know they are trying, but with every update there are either new issues or old one resurface. I do appricate the effort they have been putting in. I'm sure this is difficult to maintain with the constant changes and hurdles they have to go through.
Developer Response ,
I'm sorry to hear that you're having problems with the app. I understand how frustrating it can be when something you've been using for over a year starts having issues. It's tough to hear that my efforts are causing problems, as that was never my intention.
Useful extension but has issues
I’ve been using this app for a while and it’s really useful for watching YT, but unfortunately this extension works 7 out of 10 times. When you’re watching certain videos the extension would freak out and keep replaying the beginning section of the video over and over again when 1080p can’t be used. Not every video can be played at 1080p sometimes it’ll say “Fallback” on the top left and you’re forced to watch the video in 360p, personally this is still my go to way to watch YT on mobile but it’s really buggy at times, I rather watch YT content on my computer but if I’m forced to use mobile I’ll use this over the YT app. Oh I forgot to mention it has Picture in Picture mode which is nice, hopefully they can iron out the bugs with the Fallback stuff soon. 3 out of 5 stars
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- And a Dinosaur
- Size
- 2.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 And a Dinosaur
- Price
- $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.