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My comment was poorly worded, of course they can be built and run. I just feel like the extra hoops one would have to go through, finding a build or building from source (which is a very power-user use case) would be disqualifying it from being considered a mainstream choice available to the masses.

But yes, that is fair.

The Chromium project does maintain an official alternative to those: download-chromium.appspot.com. I think it's discoverable via documentation on chromium.org albeit perhaps (I don't remember) not from the main download page.

(Disclosure: I work at Google on Chrome.)

or even easier:

choco install chromium

choco install ungoogled-chromium

https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=chromium

and if you want extensions the easy way in ungoogled-chromium :

https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store