Opening Spotify links in desktop app w/o extension???

[kriskringly]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Dell PC - i5-8500T @2.1ghz 16gb RAM 64bit / MacBook Pro 2016 13" 16gb ram SSD

Operating System

Windows 10 / MacOS High Sierra

My Question or Issue

Most of what I was reading about this is from last year. Has there been any changes? I don't want to install a chrome extension that requires access to all my browser data. What happened to the "open links in desktop app" setting that used to exist? What was the reason for removing this option?

[SpotyMarc]

Same problem here (and everywhere!) 
Please solve!