• @[email protected]OP
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    721 hours ago

    Strongly agree on this one. Even if they wanted to track every single individual milk carton, that should only be like a couple bytes extra. Overly complex QR codes look ugly and are harder to scan

    • @[email protected]
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      618 hours ago

      The complexity is likely a product of redundancy and error correction in the QR code rather than making it unique. You begin to run into issues with camera resolution and whatnot, but in theory those codes are likely more reliable.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        12 hours 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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          16 hours 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

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            129 minutes 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.