[WTF?!] YouTube Kids is getting automatically disabled on Android for users in unsupported regions

What kind of black sorcery is that? We've spotted several reports from users who are noticing the YouTube Kids app disappear from their app drawer. Most of them have either sideloaded the app or installed it from a Play Store account directly but are now in a region that doesn't support it officially. And poof, it goes away. So far, this seems to affect Nougat and Oreo devices, mostly. To investigate the issue, I tried getting the YouTube Kids apk from APK Mirror and installing it on a Nokia 7 Plus running Android 8.1 Oreo, no SIM card, and with only one Google account signed in: my Lebanese one. Read More [WTF?!] YouTube Kids is getting automatically disabled on Android for users in unsupported regions was written by the awesome team at Android Police. Android Match ae http://androidmatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default