[cooperx]

How is requiring an address equal to extortion? Ultimately any legitimate business SHOULD have a contactable mailing address.

[klyrs]

The alternatives seem to be "make your address visible to the world" or "pay us for an ad". Requiring address verification, and keeping that between google and the business in question, would probably be an acceptable middle ground for this business.

[andromeduck]

Buisness contact information including addresses are very much not private information. You generally have to publicly disclose both when signing up for a licence.