Chrome's Breaking and Entering

Let’s not beat around the bush: This is effectively malware behaviour. It’s bullshit. It’s cancer. It’s deeply disrespectful toward the user. It’s prioritizing hollow metrics at the expense of everything else.

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But, an app installing a global keyboard shortcut without user consent is bad. This can never be anything other than opt-in. At the very least, Chrome should have shown me a clear UI that said “We’re thinking Ctrl+G would be fun for you to use. You okay with that?” and a button for me to press to confirm.

Completely agree with everything Marcin is saying. And to me, it feels even worse since it doesn't feel like it's something that feels like we'd expect. When I installed Alfred and Raycast on my Mac, I installed them to get that launcher. I don't install a web browser for that. In either case, we shouldn't have apps be able to just steal global shortcuts without side kind of "hey, do you want this application to do X" What's next? Remapping Cmd+Z?