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Re:Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code by kohtatsu on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:18AM (#21906619)
I can't imagine a qr code on a receipt being anything but tracker-infested spam.
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Re:Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code by mk89 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:05PM (#21906975)
That's how it currently is in some shops. Amazing how marketers are always ahead on such technologies.
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Re:Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code by jeremyvisser on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:47PM (#21910381)
Can confirm.

I was visiting a nature reserve where the trail opened to a resting area with some seats. A tree had a woodcut QR code on it, so I thought I'd scan it to find out more about the area.

Turns out, the QR code linked to some tracking site with a short URL. Even worse, the short URL had since been deleted, so I have no way to know the original URL it went to.

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Re:Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code by tripzilch on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:18AM (#21921125)
Yep, it'll definitely have a tracking code added to the URL.
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