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i missed this at first glance: the download page does have a "chrome app" option at the bottom

edit: looks like this can't run on a Mac

"Old" Chrome Apps were disabled, it doesn't run on any new versions of Chrome.

Until the latest update, it was possible to run it anyway. Very bad timing.

It worked for me, I unzipped the crx and dragged into chromium on latest macos