Vinegar - Tube Cleaner 4+

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.

I already had an Adblock extension working fine to stop ads, but Safari PiP would constantly pause playback when locking the screen or while multitasking. I thought I found my answer with Vinegar. Now my video audio continues when locking or multitasking, but now I can forget about a video automatically resuming where I left off after any lengthy pause, or even resuming at all without a page refresh. Because of the black screens of no playback, I am then forced to interact with the UI to troubleshoot and it really makes the UI feel clunky. If I didn’t have to press play/pause or PiP/close full screen so many times to try to get the page to resume where I left off in the video, the UI would be just fine. Refreshing the page starts the video back at 00:00, and it’s up to you to scrub to where you left off. My main use is to listen to 2+hr long content during commutes and Vinegar has made it very unenjoyable. Listening to say 47 minutes, pausing, going into work, leaving work, and then fighting the player to actually play and then scrubbing to find where I left off (hard to do if you don’t note what time you paused) just to do it over again the next time I hop in the car is not fun.

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