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Google's camera distorts links in QR codes
German article:
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?seite=all
Translated by Google (hopefully without distortions):
https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?seite=all&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
- Someone 5y agoLooks like a honest bug, where strings extracted from QR codes get sent through a typo correction step. For example, https://www.fooco.at/hello https://www.fooco.at/hello becomes https://www.foo.co.at/hello https://www.foo.co.at/hello and https://referendum.cat https://referendum.cat becomes https://referendum.ca https://referendum.ca. (whether it’s good idea to make such corrections when theuser types such URLs is a different issue)