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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by Sander_Marechal on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:08AM (#25726088)
I have a Pixel 2. It scans QR codes with the default camera app just fine. When it detects a QR code you get a little popup you can click. It even works with regular 1D barcodes.
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by MrDresden on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:45AM (#25726322)
Long time Pixel user here (and an Android dev for that matter) and I had no idea the camera had qr support!
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by mackrevinack on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:03AM (#25726459)
just go into the camera settings and turn on lens suggestions
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by Daniel_sk on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:14AM (#25726927)
If you are fine with sending the camera stream to Google for analysis...
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by Daho0n on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:11AM (#25727380)
If not you wouldn't use a Pixel.
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by tjoff on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:46PM (#25736515)
Hardly a fact. As a privacy minded person I hold the Nexus/Pixel devices quite high in regard in the android ecosystem.

Better to be screwed by google, than to be screwed by both google and samsung/whatever.

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by MrDresden on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:53AM (#25727738)
Well actually I just tried this with the normal camera and it worked fine without activating lens (or having given it any permissions).
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by po1nter on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:30AM (#25726629)
Same here with my Samsung Galaxy S8+. There's a QR code scanner in the camera app.
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by ciceryadam on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:56AM (#25726813)
Same here with a semi-recent Motorola One Zoom
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by dariosalvi78 on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:38AM (#25730318)
same here with One plus
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