> it is probably more secure than using a 3rd party app and handing over to them credentials to your machine
Well, unless you consider your computer Google-owned, this is using a third-party (Google) app and handing over to them credentials to your machine.
However, trusting a third party for connection initiation is the only option unless one has a computer that's globally addressable and accessible from the Internet.
Still, as (IIRC) Chrome Remote Desktop does not provide end-to-end authentication (i.e. peers don't visibly - in a manner acknowledgeable by the end-user - authenticate that they're genuinely securely communicating to each other without third party inbetween), so it's probably less secure, if compared to a VPN-to-home service.
Well, unless you consider your computer Google-owned, this is using a third-party (Google) app and handing over to them credentials to your machine.
However, trusting a third party for connection initiation is the only option unless one has a computer that's globally addressable and accessible from the Internet.
Still, as (IIRC) Chrome Remote Desktop does not provide end-to-end authentication (i.e. peers don't visibly - in a manner acknowledgeable by the end-user - authenticate that they're genuinely securely communicating to each other without third party inbetween), so it's probably less secure, if compared to a VPN-to-home service.