How to RE-ENABLE Google sync on "Chromium" on a Pi ... for now

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How to RE-ENABLE Google's syncing of history, passwords, credit cards, logins etc, on Chromium, FOR NOW, after they so kindly decided to remove it for no sane reason (Google can be quite infuriating at times):

# Tested only on my Raspberry Pi 400, fully up to date; I am sure this method is platform agnostic, ergo should work on most *nix systems #

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sudo nano /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/00-rpi-vars
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Paste in the red parts AS IS, in that file (green parts are the existing content of that file - make a backup if needed):
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="${CHROMIUM_FLAGS} --force-renderer-accessibility --disable-quic --enable-tcp-fast-open --oauth2-client-id=77185425430.apps.googleusercontent.com --oauth2-client-secret=OTJgUOQcT7lO7GsGZq2G4IlT"

Et voila! It works! Tested on my Pi 400 as below:

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="10"
VERSION="10 (buster)"
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"