Vanced Manager is warned by Google Play Protect as a dangerous application
Recently, Google is said to have pressured the YouTube Vanced application development team to announce its shutdown. However, it doesn’t stop there, as current versions of Vanced continue to work, many users are still searching and installing the application on their devices.
Often used together with YouTube Vanced is Vanced Manager, which supports the management and installation of the main application. As recently discovered by many users on Reddit and Twitter, Google Play Protect has ‘flagged’ the Vanced Manager app as ‘harmful’, prompting users to uninstall it. This makes many people suspect that Google’s Play Protect warning is an action to “chase and destroy”, because Play Protect previously did not flag the Vanced Manager application.
While Google hasn’t made an official statement as to why Play Protect is suddenly targeting the Vanced Manager app, Mishaal Rahman of Esper (the DevOps platform for Android) speculates that it’s more likely because Vanced Manager might use it. Root access to install apps.
According to the screenshot, the uninstall prompt describes Vanced Manager as “trying to bypass Android’s security measures”. This warning falls under the “Advanced Privilege Abuse” and “Rooting” categories identified in Google’s official Play Protect warning series for malware.
However, this also does not explain why only the older Vanced Manager v2.6.0 version is marked as malicious, and the latest version (v.2.6.2) is not, to the developers. Vanced’s didn’t know the reason either.
Reference: XDA-Developers
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