Baking Soda
Baking Soda is a Safari extension for Mac that replaces many custom web video players with a simpler HTML5 video player.
What is Baking Soda?
Baking Soda is a Safari extension for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that changes many non-YouTube custom web video players into a standard HTML5 video player. It is designed for people who want a cleaner, more straightforward way to watch embedded video in Safari. In everyday use, it can make playback feel simpler by exposing normal browser-based video controls instead of site-specific players. The app works across supported websites other than YouTube, where the developer offers a separate app called Vinegar for that specific use case. Baking Soda is a lightweight utility focused on video playback behavior inside Safari rather than a standalone media player. It is published by And a Dinosaur.
Key features
- Replace many custom website video players with a standard HTML5 video player
- Watch embedded videos with simpler built-in playback controls in Safari
- Use the extension on websites other than YouTube
- Disable the extension on specific websites when a site works better without it
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Baking Soda is a legitimate Safari extension that needs permission to interact with webpages so it can detect and replace supported video players. That level of access is normal for a browser extension with this purpose, but it also means the extension can read page content on sites where you allow it to run. If a site behaves unexpectedly, turn the extension off for that site in Safari’s extension settings.
Recommendation: Keep Baking Soda if you use Safari and prefer simpler video playback on supported sites. If you do not use it, you can remove it without affecting macOS, though websites that relied on it will return to their normal built-in video players.
Common paths
/Applications/Baking Soda.app
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