For future reference, a solution is at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t
/call-for-testing-chromium-browser-deb-to-snap-transition/11179/239.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1738149

Title:
  [snap] Cannot use libwidevinecdm.so to play back DRM-encrypted video

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The chromium-browser deb package has a patch that allows the browser
  to look for the content decryption module in /opt/google/chrome/ and
  use it if present (assumes google-chrome is also installed).

  This won't work with the snap, because the snap's runtime environment
  won't use /opt from the host.

  What could work is to patch chromium to look for libwidevinecdm.so
  somewhere within the snap's area ($SNAP_USER_COMMON or
  $SNAP_USER_DATA), and have instructions for the user to copy the file
  to this area.

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