And even when none of that’s the case, they’re likely to be slow and glitchy. Others contain genuine malicious code, or flashing pages full of links to sites that do. (You can minimize the effect with a Chrome ad blocker, but it’s best to just avoid third-party sites.) Some are stuffed with ads, not all legit. Some carry trackers you don’t want their cookies might be collecting data you don’t want them to.

But in fact, it’s better to stay away from these ostensibly fan-made copies. It looks like you could just take your pick. Pages and pages of rips, replicas, and fan remakes. Search for the Dino game in Google search and you’ll see more than a few options. First: Be wary of fake Dino games in search Plus some other games you might like too. Whether you’ve played Chrome Dino before or you’re completely new to it, read on to find out how to find the game, play it to high scores, and get under the hood to tinker with it.

It’s completely free to play, and in 2018, its developers were interviewed by the Google Press Office and admitted they’d had to give enterprise developers a way to disable the game because “school kids-and even adults who were supposed to be working-really got into it.” It has 270 million players, a figure many for-profit apps and games would kill for. Buried inside that screen is a Chrome easter egg-a super-simple game designed to be a throwback to the “prehistoric” times before wifi.įor an Easter egg, it’s been very successful. If you don’t have an internet connection when you launch Chrome, you’ll get an error screen letting you know you’re not connected.

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