Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

I’m really enjoying this. It’s so much faster and basic stuff like rotation that was janky under the YouTube player now works smoothly. But I have to wonder how long it lasts before YouTube takes steps to break it.

Re: Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

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Post by lelandfe » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 1:50 AM UTC

How does this handle video quality selection? My phone tends to default to 360p on YouTube for some reason.

Re: Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

#6

Post by Orphis » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 1:52 AM UTC

So they are charging people to remove ads so that the content creator doesn't get any ad revenue from their views? So ethical.

Re: Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

#7

Post by 9935c101ab17a66 » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 2:00 AM UTC

I really love this idea, but it seems like on macOS, you can't use the left/right arrows to skip forward/backward. I did some testing and this appears to be a limitation of the HTML5 video player implemented in Safari, but it would be amazing if this functionality was added (along with other keyboard shortcuts).

Re: Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

#8

Post by sneak » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 2:08 AM UTC

Orphis wrote: post #6

So they are charging people to remove ads so that the content creator doesn't get any ad revenue from their views? So ethical.

The ethical issue that I have with it is not the money, it's that you cannot get anything from the App Store (even free apps!) without giving Apple your rough location (client IP), a phone number (required to get an Apple ID), and your unchangeable device hardware serial number.

Fuck that noise.

Don't give money to App-Store-only software vendors.

Re: Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

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Post by comeonseriously » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 2:18 AM UTC

lelandfe wrote: post #5

How does this handle video quality selection? My phone tends to default to 360p on YouTube for some reason.

Could be a carrier setting. Log into your carrier account and see if there some sort of data saver that blocks higher bitrate videos.

Re: Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags

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Post by sodality2 » Mon, Nov 29, 2021, 2:22 AM UTC

So what is this, replacing it with an invidious-hosted embed?