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nl,

There are two issues here:

1. You can ask for more, but how many will they give you? and 2. The fact that you need a key, makes it virtually useless for wide use in applications or websites. With the old api which didn't require a key, you had, practically speaking no limit when calling the api client-side. With the key that option falls away.

[nl]

With the new API console you can authorize/deauthorize your key on a per-website basis.

API keys are pretty standard for APIs - I hardly see that as a problem. The old version had one too: http://code.google.com/apis/loader/signup.html