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Nope.

See here for a better summary of the feature: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332673/what-and-ho...

From my own experimentation in Terminal.app in Mojave, ~/Library/Safari is unreadable without granting permission, but I can read everything under ~/Library/Application Support/Google just fine.

Probably Apple should expose a way for applications to register their data to be included in the protected data set.

Owning an operating system means you get special treatment for your apps.

There's nothing to stop Chrome or Firefox from encrypting and/or obfuscating their history file.

There is nothing stopping an app from pretending to be Chrome or Firefox and decrypting the history file for themselves.

Just be thankful you can still use other browsers on Mac!