That's the intended behaviour, snapd's sandbox doesn't allow strictly
confined snaps (such as chromium) to access files owned by someone else.

Out of curiosity, what's the use case for files owned by a different
owner in your home directory?

** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  [snap] Unable to access files owned by another user

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The chromium snap cannot access files in my $HOME that have a
  different owner, even though the files are world-readable.

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