My opinion: There is no good reason for you (a contributor) to sign a CLA for an open source project.
The only real reason that CLA is there is so that the entity behind it can change the license without your permission.
They should have to get your permission.
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Google requires this (without copyright assignment) for most of their projects but they use permissive licensing for nearly everything and that's the licensing I prefer for my own projects anyway. I just view their CLA as silly bureaucracy and don't mind contributing under it.
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I think it is worth noting that Google does this with Chromium so that they can make the proprietary Chrome without any concern about relicensing.
The way they've been trending, I think it's very likely that they'll close all the source they can at some point.
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I think you're wrong about that and from my perspective Chromium dropping support for proprietary services would be major progress. It's used by a bunch of downstream browsers, not just Chrome, and it would be better off as a much more vendor neutral project closer to LLVM.
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Except it's never been run that way, and the upstream treats any use of the chromium source by anyone that isn't Google with extreme derision.
The moment that any of those chromium based browsers begin to seriously compete, I think Google decides they've had enough with open.
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They really don't treat it that way. Rather, they treat Linux distributions making Chrome-like builds of Chromium using their proprietary services that way. They happily work with Microsoft and others upstream including giving them commit access and optionally Chromium emails.
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They don't want people to make browsers using proprietary Google services. Most major browser projects also don't want to use them. I don't think you can compare how they treat Edge with how they treat say, Arch Linux making a browser using what they see as their Chrome services.
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They've always made the distinction very clear for Chromium on Android. They implement the Google services via Play services there, so if you don't have Play services (which isn't in baseline Android) then there's barely any Google service functionality without a major fork.
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I'll be quite happy if they remove all the proprietary services from Chromium, and so would Edge, Brave, etc. because it means not having to maintain 200+ patches to disable it all before actually started on adding anything. At the very least it should be optional for builds.