I don't mean to be a curmudgeon, but why put out this kind of privacy-minded plugin for Chrome, one of the browsers I'd probably least trust to respect my privacy?

If you have specific privacy complaints about Chrome, spill it. Content-free finger pointing like this isn't constructive.

Chrome is closed-source, so being specific isn't going to be possible. There are several specific privacy complaints about Chromium, though: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/