@SuperDicq @sally Well one thing that should be fixed is allowing developers to not provide keys and instead having users providing them, like done with some twitter clients.

That said distros providing API keys is done from time to time, for example Firefox in Gentoo: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/firefox/firefox-129.0.ebuild#n557
(And they're likely the same kind of thing in other distros, including GNU-approved ones)