3 ms·
Technically, it didn't remotely uninstall it by itself, but it did pop up a box on everyone's devices that said "Your device is at risk" because it's a "harmful
by josephcsible 4y ago
Technically, it didn't remotely uninstall it by itself, but it did pop up a box on everyone's devices that said "Your device is at risk" because it's a "harmful app", with only an Uninstall button and no visible cancel button.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI see, I never got that. Must've turned off Google's antivirus at some point. Not that I trusted the Vanced Manager in the first place; I prefer my weird root customisations to be open source. I suppose it makes sense in a way; Vanced replaced an existing system package with a modified APK through root access. Google's intent was obviously not to protect the user, but the behaviour of the app was sketchy as hell. Especially for a closed source app. ReVanced does this differently, that modifies the Youtube APK and changes the package name so it doesn't conflict. Regardless, the notification could just be dismissed and the AV is entirely optional. The warning ("this app tries to bypass Android's security protections") is entirely justified because that's exactly what the app was doing. Anyone pirating anything knows to disable their AV at their own peril and this is hardly something new, at least this time the app wasn't flagged as a trojan with a fake name like most cracks and key generators are. Lastly, there are tons of people reporting weird behaviour after installing a modified version of Vanced blaming it on the app itself, so the warning wasn't always disingenuous.