I had been maintaining a more privacy-friendly fork of an Android app, and released it on Google's Play Store.

It used to be mostly fine to deal with their paperwork and bureaucracy, nowadays it's ridiculous.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13392821

They want app maintainers to upload a frigging video of each feature; this is SO MUCH added work for basically no gain. I could show just one place where these services are used in an OK fashion and not others where they could be shady.

Anyway, giving up on Google's crap and setting up a private #fdroid repository; that's significantly easier.