As it is, I have a Winblows box for gaming only that I put Chrome on, but one day, I am going to be remote and needing Chrome. I don't want google's tentacles on my work laptop, but am starting to worry that I have no choice...
If you absolutely must use Chromium you can use Brave instead. It doesn't solve the extensions issue discussed here but at least it cuts out most of the Google garbage.
I thought Brave was yet another scammy project that was showing ads (albeit selectively)
Put that one out to some local media, social media, etc.
Or even better, report them to https://webcompat.com
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619523
Anyway one valid solution is to add one or more app shortcuts that effectively run chrome/chromium --app=url and collectively treat these chrome specific apps as such. Instead of opening a new tab just click the icon on your bar.
This doesn't quite handle for example links however one could use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-in-chrom... to click on links and send them to chrome for known problematic sites.
This is still way better than in the early firefox/IE days.
• Slack, for audio/video calls
• Microsoft Teams, for audio calls (the video portion technically works if you fake the user agent)
• Skype for Web, for audio/video calls (although it occasionally decides to work if you fake the user agent, it usually breaks)
Slack is a problem for me. I have to boot up a VM when someone wants to call me on Slack.
The builds themselves may potentially be insecure, but they're rather popular among the security-conscious target audience, so I hope someone would notice if they go bad.