Unlike Chrome, Chromium is open-source, so presumably no one is forbidding people to distribute it in binary form and archive older releases. Worst comes you co

Unlike Chrome, Chromium is open-source, so presumably no one is forbidding people to distribute it in binary form and archive older releases. Worst comes you could always retrieve the source code of older versions and build them yourself: https://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code https://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code As for the problem of auto-updates, if you run Chromium on Linux, install it as root and run it as your normal user (as distributions usually do), then presumably it won't be able to update automatically.