• Noxy
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    13 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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      13 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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        13 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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          13 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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            13 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?