The details are fuzzy, but I think my husband and I downloaded the YouTube Kids app to our TV sometime in 2022, when between one and three members of the household came down with the flu at the same time. Like countless parents of toddlers before us, we needed something, anything, that would buy us a moment to vomit in peace. It worked, but it was the start of a fraught relationship - one that I have finally put to an end years later by banishing YouTube Kids from every screen in our house it has ever darkened.

We initially let our son, Lennox, roam free through the app, trusting in the content filters and the broad categorization of "appro …

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