Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

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.

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.

After unchecking the Adblock extensions, this worked really well. I do go back and reactivate Adblock after done.

The extension causes the video to play from the beginning even with a timestamp “t” parameter on the URL

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.

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.

Must have utility. Currently Airplay and Mirroring to ATV from YT is effed up, especially if you use HomePods as speakers. Hopefully that can be fixed, but it’s still an incredible app either way.

Been using it for a few months now but recently it stopped working properly. It fails to actually change the video quality and causes some sort of interference that leaves YouTube perpetually buffering the video. This happens every time it’s set to auto. If you’re lucky enough to get the video working, it’ll play for a few seconds until it inevitably crashes and restarts the video using “fallback” in the playback quality. It’ll then just continue to play a few seconds of video before restarting.

Using YouTube in safari is hot garbage. This makes it much better. Great work guys

It's nice, but I prefer the original YouTube UI. Can we tweak it to have rounded corners instead of square ones?