Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

For the past few months, I've been having inconsistent results with the extension. Whereas last year all videos worked fine, ads or the original YT web player have been loading. As of tonight, disabling "Block pop-ups" seems to be helping. I found this in Settings > Apps > Safari > General (above Extensions settings). Will update the review if this does/doesn't work

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 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.