Google Play is so creepily omniscient that my wife now firewalls it on her phone and only lets it out once per month for an hour to perform app updates.

But to do that she had to buy a phone that permitted rooting, which needed an delockable boot loader, which required me to sit for a few hours researching and a few more hours rooting. It is ridiculous and if it becomes any more difficult for the next upgrade then we'll just jump to another platform.