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Baking Soda is a Safari extension that replaces custom video players (except the YouTube player) with a minimal HTML video tag.
Baking Soda is more basic than Vinegar. Unlike Vinegar, Baking Soda doesn't block ads or let you switch the video quality. If Baking Soda doesn't work on certain websites, you can easily disable it in the settings.
Note: The "can read and alter webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording. Baking Soda needs access to the web page to find video players and replace them. It's not doing anything creepy!
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Baking Soda FAQ
Is Baking Soda free?
Yes, Baking Soda is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Baking Soda legit?
🤔 The Baking Soda app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
This is a much needed extension, but I have no idea why this, and its companion Vinegar—which have exactly the same functionality except one is restricted to YouTube and the other to everything else—have to be split into separate apps. I would’ve been more than happy to pay the bundle price for a single app, or “unlock all” could’ve been added as an in-app purchase.
Despite this, the app is great and recommended for frequent video watchers across everything except YouTube.
Great standardisation across the Web
It’s truly great to finally be able to use one familiar set of controls and UI across the vast majority of the web. The conversion to the HTML video player doesn’t work on every single website I’ve tested, but the vast majority play along just fine, so I’m satisfied. As expected, certain features of custom video players, like selecting resolutions, are not available. I’m not sure if it’s technically feasible to implement such features, but as far as the scope of the app being to simplify video playback in Safari, I don’t mind - besides, the extension can be easily disabled on a per-website basis.
I would appreciate the ability to customise the extension pane, if possible. I’d rather not have every single website be listed every time the toolbar icon is selected. I’d prefer, instead, that only the checkbox for the currently displayed webpage be listed.
This and Tube Cleaner are great!
So good, only still get adds on twitch. If you could find a way to fix those this’d be a 10/10. Cheers
Wow…
Makes watching videos across the web so effortless and easy… thank you :)
Better Web Experience
Using this app over the past few weeks has resulted in a far more pleasant web surfing experience. So much of the web involves video content with horrible video players, so forcing the standard across every site makes so many webpages simpler, faster to load, and more elegant.
Works good
Just in the last 2 days it has been turning itself off for YouTube. The slider in extension settings keeps reverting to off.
Love it though.
Impossibly Great Deal
I would have paid more for this. It is undeniably a great deal, and a no-compromise solution to removing janky video players from web pages!
6 out of 5
Wonderful, thanks so much. Now, PLEASE, I beg of you, give us a fine slider for playback speed. So many bingable series benefit from just a little adjustment, imho. thank you again, it's an incredible, lovely product. Well done.
Iffy
Doesn’t work very well on iPhone unfortunately. Auto is broken and the video repeats same 5sec over and over for some videos
Great app!
Great app and simple design. I love how I can disable it on a per-website basis.
It would be even better if certain controls like closed captioning and quality were made available on the clean version, and a way to copy the link for the video so I can open it in a new tab (I hate that I can easily do this on my Mac via a right-click, but not my iPad).
But how it is currently is well worth the money!
