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dan@upvote.au 1 month agoor 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@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.
dan@upvote.au 1 month 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@yiffit.net 1 month 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?