Google considers YouTube Vanced Manager as a “harmful” app after announcing its closure

Google Play Protect has classified Vanced Manager as “harmful” urging users to uninstall it from their device after learning that it will be discontinued soon.

As reported 9to5Googlewhich collects the experience of Reddit users, in the last few hours Android phones with the Vanced ‘app’ installed have begun to receive a notification from Google Play Protect indicating that the application is “harmful” and “puts your device at risk.”

Vanced Manager, the app that Google Play Protect considers “harmful”, is the launcher for YouTube Vanced, the app that allows you to circumvent some limitations of YouTube’s free mode, such as its ads.

For its part, Google Play Protect is installed as standard on the vast majority of Android devices to warn users about possible malicious apps, a group that now includes Vanced.

From its official Twitter account, the developers of Vanced announced on March 13 that the ‘app’ would stop receiving updates and that the possibility of downloading it would disappear from its website in the following days.

In case of having the ‘app’ already installed on a device, from Vanced they recognized that these versions will be maintained for a certain time until they become obsolete in a maximum period of two years.

The discontinuation of Vanced was associated precisely with certain “legal problems” with Google, which owns YouTube. According TheVergethe company could see it as a threat since users were able to enjoy some of the advantages of YouTube Premium, its paid service, without spending any money.

‘Dangerous app’ notification attributed to Vanced Manager. (Photo: Reddit)

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