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Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good
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Technically they could, but the effort and checks required to do so would be massive and very disruptive to android in general. They tried something kinda like it with SafetyNet, and it's so trivial to bypass it's being phased out.
Turns out root detection is kinda easy to circumvent if you have, you know, root access.