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It’s similar to how Fortnite is distributed on Android through the Epic Games Store app.

Vanced Manager isn’t the same app as YouTube Vanced directly, but rather an app that acts as a sort of “app store” to keep Vanced updated, as well as to install it initially. Over the past several hours, Android users with the Vanced Manager app installed have been getting notifications from Google Play Protect saying that the app is “harmful” and “puts your device at risk.”

Now, those with the app still installed are seeing Google Play Protect marking Vanced Manager as “harmful,” and prompting the app to be uninstalled. The feature-adding and ad-blocking YouTube Vanced app was discontinued earlier this month, but the app’s developers said it would continue to work until changes to YouTube’s API killed it off for good.