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The whole point of having human readable code is to help avoid being scammed, so having a code embedded that a human cant read but is what actually used for the
by basicplus2 7y ago
The whole point of having human readable code is to help avoid being scammed, so having a code embedded that a human cant read but is what actually used for the link defeats the purpose
- ASalazarMX 7y agoAlso, most likely all URLs would end up coded like https://go.to/abcdef https://go.to/abcdef Edit: just found clicking go.to redirects to flock.com.
- tedunangst 7y agoSo what happens when someone makes an image that appears like one url but scans as a different url? goDgle.com?
- basicplus2 7y agoThen that is a failure of the protocol
- kadoban 7y agoWhat if the data is human readable but the error correction is only machine readable? There still might be room for scams if the error correction is too clever, maybe it could only be a checksum?