Four things have to agree before a Chrome listing survives review, and only one of them is prose. The manifest requests permissions. The data declaration form enumerates collected data as structured fields, and it is not optional [11]. The privacy policy sits at a URL the developer supplies [10]. The extension's own network traffic is the ground truth, and according to Maximstone the store checks generated artifacts against what the extension actually does [16]. An agent drafting the policy can read the first three inputs. The fourth it can only infer, which is why he calls a plausible policy that contradicts your analytics SDK "a rejection with better grammar" [16].
The localization count is where the verification load shows up. Chrome supports 40-plus locales, and the items that get localized are four: short description, detailed description, changelog, screenshots [12]. Forty times four is 160 artifacts [3]. Each one is a place where a translated sentence can promise a capability the manifest never requested. Producing those 160 is parallel work and fits in an afternoon [15]. Checking them is serial, and the agent that wrote them cannot answer to a reviewer on your behalf [18].
Images are the easy part: four icons, one screenshot at 1280x800, and three promotional tiles if you ever want to be featured, which is eight files for Chrome alone [4]. Those are cheap to export and cheap to check, unlike the queue, which does not respond to effort. One quarter's intake of 49,518 against a standing catalog of 303,800 is 16.3 percent [1]. Four quarters at the same rate would add 198,072, about 65 percent of the store's current size [5]; that extrapolation assumes the rate holds, which nothing in the source claims. The direction is the one Maximstone describes, a flood being judged by systems built to cope with a flood [17].
What the material does not supply is a price for getting it wrong. There is no review-duration figure, no rejection rate, and no queue length for any of the three stores [6]. The three gates are named as a structure rather than enumerated with their timings [5], so the restarting clock is an argument for front-loading verification, not a number you can put in a schedule.
The week-converts-into-review estimate [15] transfers under two conditions: the extension collects data worth declaring, and you actually want the 40 locales. Drop both and the surface nearly disappears, down to eight images and a single English listing. Keep both and you are reconciling 160 translated claims plus a declaration that has to survive comparison with your own egress. If one artifact stays hand-written, make it the declaration, because it is the field carrying two independent checks: the policy it has to match [11], and the code a reviewer compares it against [16].
