Vinegar is available for $1.99 on the App Store. The developer is considering adding support for other video sites in the future. The extension even works for embedded YouTube videos on other websites. This Safari extension is available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. I say minimal, but the features are far from that.
Bring Premium Features and More to YouTubeĭeveloped by Zhenyi Tan of And a Dinosaur, Vinegar replaces the stock YouTube player in Safari with a minimal HTML video tag.
Since iOS 15 includes support for Safari extensions, it will work there, too. Fortunately, a Safari extension named Vinegar is now available to replace the standard YouTube player. However, the YouTube player has turned into a mess again. In the past, when the YouTube player was written in Flash, we had a Safari extension to clean things up.
