I think currently Helium[1] is trying to fill that niche of a privacy oriented Chromium fork without bullshit and focus on performance.
[1] https://github.com/imputnet/helium
There's also ungoogled-chromium and it uses similar set of patches: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
There's also ungoogled-chromium and it uses similar set of patches: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium