They’re using a classifier to capture metadata (like “does a dog live there?” or “does a baby live there”) by categorizing sounds. That’s all technically legal, that’s why they do it that way.

They were an issue because it was the wild West and any app could keylog any other app and respond to anything. Now we actually have UX around this.

Just one year? It’s been working much longer for me.

XDG Global shortcuts portal? Has existed and been supported by plasma and gnome for a while https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.GlobalShortcuts.html