• Noxy@yiffit.net
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      23 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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        18 hours 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.

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          13 hours ago

          Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.

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            7 hours ago

            You don’t have to use a third-party short URL service. It can be hosted on your own site.

            A lot of people are already using a third-party short URL service like qrco.de because they don’t realise you don’t actually need a service like that to make a QR code.

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              6 hours ago

              Regardless, why bother running or using a short URL service? QR codes can easily hold a full URL and more, and QR codes are not (nor are they meant to be) human readable, so what’s the benefit?