YouTube quietly implements significant change

YouTube, Google’s renowned video-sharing service, has quietly undergone a major overhaul. Now, when you open YouTube without signing in to a Google account, the home page will be entirely blank.

Previously, if you accessed YouTube without logging into an account, there were several videos recommended based on the user’s local history.

However, if you log out of the web browser or open YouTube on a browser without a Google account login, or use incognito mode, a blank page will appear upon opening the video-sharing website.

A message on this blank page instructs the user to search for videos.

It remains unclear when YouTube implemented this change, as the company did not make any official announcement.

However, a similar change was hinted at in August 2023, suggesting that users would be given the option to keep the YouTube homepage blank. It was mentioned at that time that clearing your YouTube watch history would result in a blank homepage.