Google's camera distorts links in QR codes
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Couple that with numerous random stickers found on mailboxes, sign and traffic poles, and near alleyways, QR code is getting trusted less and less by the day.
But why would it be more trusted to begin with?
Trusted by the virtue of curiosity seekers.
Thanks.
The original site has an obnoxious cookie popup that covers the whole screen and more to the point here you have to scroll to click the buttons on mobile.
And it prompts for a login.
Deployers of QR code MUST now embed some form of a checksum value of undisclosed algorithm to protect the original URL.
Hence another frontier of cat-and-mouse game of security theater has emerged.