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Sure, but not many people would knowingly and willingly enter a long URL in their browser. The ease of use and simplicity of QR codes (just point your camera!)
by dirktheman 7y ago
Sure, but not many people would knowingly and willingly enter a long URL in their browser. The ease of use and simplicity of QR codes (just point your camera!) is what makes them a potential risk, IMHO.
- jobigoud 7y agoWe most certainly have the computer vision tech to detect URLs from images of the camera stream. That could be an extra feature of QR code readers app if it's not already.
- shpx 7y agoIf you have a Pixel phone, open the camera, scroll right to More, open Lens and point your phone at a (human readable) URL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens
- tobr 7y agoThen we have very different ideas of why QR codes are bad. I think they’re bad because they waste space with something that is completely useless to human senses. They should be replaced with good OCR, not with manual typing. Teach machines to make use of human language instead of teaching humans to make use of machine language.
- papln 7y ago99.9% of the information in your computing life is not human readable; it's encoded in radio waves and electrical pulses that your senses can't interpret.
- tobr 7y agoYou can’t experience them with your senses at all, which is completely different. You can see a QR code, and in fact you have to see it to be able to use it, so it takes up space on signs, in magazines, billboards, etc.
- theamk 7y agobut they'd enter bit.ly URL with no problem, and it can redirect to such URL