• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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    2 months ago

    QR codes have built in redundancy and error correction, though. I guess if they had it turned up to the max for some reason?

    • Noxy
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      12 months ago

      yeah, qr codes have different levels of error correction that you can specify, could very be well turned up to the max

      or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason

        Ideally you should use a short URL that redirects to the full URL. The tracking parameters should be on the long URL, not the short one.

        • Noxy
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          12 months ago

          Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            You don’t have to use a third-party short URL service. It can be hosted on your own site.

            A lot of people are already using a third-party short URL service like qrco.de because they don’t realise you don’t actually need a service like that to make a QR code.

            • Noxy
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              12 months ago

              Regardless, why bother running or using a short URL service? QR codes can easily hold a full URL and more, and QR codes are not (nor are they meant to be) human readable, so what’s the benefit?

    • @WaxedWookie
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      12 months ago

      Yeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.