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The YouTube app is the worst on its own site too. I don’t login to any Google account and I turned off site history, and now the homepage is completely blank. Yup. Google won’t even show me a single video on the homepage because I refuse to turn on history. Which is actually kind of nice for preventin distractions

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I have the same. While it's a bit jarring the first time you see it, I now consider this a feature instead of a bug.

Maybe it could be styled a bit differently so the search bar is more prominent and in the center of the screen, but just having a search bar without any distractions is a fantastic feature.

If you want a pure search, you can get there from your address bar without even visiting the site first. Or if you really want the search bar on the site, you can go to youtube.com/search for a nice blank page.

You don't need the obnoxious refusal to show videos on the front page.

It's actually good, the default videos are usually fighting videos, dash camera videos and garbage TV series. You don't want to see them anyway.

That's just what it gives you.

Unless you're testing this with blank accounts?

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