I wonder how Chromium, Brave or Edge handle this?

Its in the chromium repo:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

You also could probably block this with a policy file.

The extension ID is: nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=ExtensionIn...

Port forwarding is also very useful: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

It allows me to rent a cheap cloud machine, build and test code there instead of upgrading my laptop.