Lol when cannabis was illegal I taught these hippies how to root your android with a custom ROM, remove all Google maps and play store apps. They went around the city telling everyone the cops had all their maps and location data.

I may have let them go off on a tangent assuming there is no warrant to access the data from Google, but eh it was for their own benefit learning about privacy.

If you can delete the playstore entirely, thats where the "is this app updated" checks come from.