I see what you mean but surely there must be precedents of apps being pulled from the Play Store because they abused 3rd party APIs, be it Google's or somebody

I see what you mean but surely there must be precedents of apps being pulled from the Play Store because they abused 3rd party APIs, be it Google's or somebody else's? I mean why even bother obfuscating the URL otherwise, surely the expected that it could be caught in the review process.