diff --git a/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/UserContextProvider.tsx b/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/UserContextProvider.tsx
index 4a9f24cdea30e..3bcff15cc2748 100644
--- a/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/UserContextProvider.tsx
+++ b/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/UserContextProvider.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { useGetMeLazyQuery } from '../../graphql/me.generated';
 import { useGetGlobalViewsSettingsLazyQuery } from '../../graphql/app.generated';
 import { CorpUser, PlatformPrivileges } from '../../types.generated';
 import { UserContext, LocalState, DEFAULT_STATE, State } from './userContext';
-import { useInitialRedirect } from './useInitialRedirect';
 
 // TODO: Migrate all usage of useAuthenticatedUser to using this provider.
 
@@ -125,11 +124,6 @@ const UserContextProvider = ({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) => {
         }
     }, [state, localState.selectedViewUrn, setDefaultSelectedView]);
 
-    /**
-     * Route to the most recently visited path once on first load of home page, if present in local storage.
-     */
-    useInitialRedirect(state, localState, setState, updateLocalState);
-
     return (
         <UserContext.Provider
             value={{
diff --git a/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/useInitialRedirect.ts b/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/useInitialRedirect.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d9e93bfb91400..0000000000000
--- a/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/useInitialRedirect.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-import { useEffect } from 'react';
-import { useHistory, useLocation } from 'react-router';
-import { PageRoutes } from '../../conf/Global';
-
-export function useInitialRedirect(state, localState, setState, setLocalState) {
-    const location = useLocation();
-    const history = useHistory();
-
-    /**
-     * Route to the most recently visited path once on first load of home page, if present in local storage.
-     */
-    useEffect(() => {
-        if (!state.loadedInitialPath) {
-            if (location.pathname === PageRoutes.ROOT && localState.selectedPath !== location.pathname) {
-                if (localState.selectedPath && !localState.selectedPath.includes(PageRoutes.EMBED)) {
-                    history.replace({
-                        pathname: localState.selectedPath,
-                        search: localState.selectedSearch || '',
-                    });
-                }
-            }
-            setState({
-                ...state,
-                loadedInitialPath: true,
-            });
-        }
-    }, [
-        localState.selectedPath,
-        localState.selectedSearch,
-        location.pathname,
-        location.search,
-        state,
-        history,
-        setState,
-    ]);
-
-    /**
-     * When the location of the browse changes, save the latest to local state.
-     */
-    useEffect(() => {
-        if (
-            (localState.selectedPath !== location.pathname || localState.selectedSearch !== location.search) &&
-            !location.pathname.includes(PageRoutes.EMBED)
-        ) {
-            setLocalState({
-                ...localState,
-                selectedPath: location.pathname,
-                selectedSearch: location.search,
-            });
-        }
-    }, [location.pathname, location.search, localState, setLocalState]);
-}
diff --git a/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/userContext.tsx b/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/userContext.tsx
index b6cbe6250e4ed..2e174d38247f5 100644
--- a/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/userContext.tsx
+++ b/datahub-web-react/src/app/context/userContext.tsx
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ export type State = {
         loadedPersonalDefaultViewUrn: boolean;
         hasSetDefaultView: boolean;
     };
-    /**
-     * Whether the initial page path has been loaded.
-     */
-    loadedInitialPath: boolean;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -54,7 +50,6 @@ export const DEFAULT_STATE: State = {
         loadedPersonalDefaultViewUrn: false,
         hasSetDefaultView: false,
     },
-    loadedInitialPath: false,
 };
 
 export const DEFAULT_CONTEXT = {