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artyom@piefed.social 2 months agoI was very excited when I started seeing QR codes gaining popularity. That excitement was quickly shattered when everyone just started using them improperly and they just made everything more annoying 😮💨
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What exactly is “improper use”?
KingKong33@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Lots of people use Lemmy via mobile. How am I supposed to scan a QR code?
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.
KingKong33@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Or I could just scroll past it and not give them the time of day because they were too lazy to post a link, you know, the primary method for navigating the internet for decades now. Why the need to overly complicate things?
morto@piefed.social 2 months ago
Putting simple things behind a qrwall. I once went to a presentation and they had that qr code to scan to get the certificate, and I went there without my phone, so I got no certificate (I needed it for academic bureaucracy). restaurants with qr-only menus also come to mind. Oh, I also saw once a school with the timetables mural with just qrs and nothing else written, so if new students didn’t have a phone AND mobile internet, they couldn’t find by themselves where and when their classes took place
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
Basically anytime it’s not printed