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Interesting story, though I don't understand what he says at the end about not being able to redirect the QR Code to another link because the QR Code is the lin

• pilif 15y ago
  Because then his blog would be unavailable? The code points to the root of his domain. And even if he was willing to have his blog redirect to that other site, there's still the issue about all these other misprinted codes. If they point to $randomblog it's mostly funny. If they point (via the redirect) to $possible_competitor, it's much worse
• rpledge 15y ago
  It points to his top level. He'd be sending traffic away from his site unless he managed to filter it somehow.
• drostie 15y ago
  He already indicates in the paragraph just before that he technically could redirect the traffic -- that he offered to send all IPs from Belgium to some Belgian company which had accidentally used his QR code in actual advertisements. (And that they declined because he asked too much money.) There is no technical barrier to redirection. What he actually says is "What does that mean? I’m guessing they think I can somehow magically cause that QR Code (which they accidentally used in something printed?) to redirect to another URL. I don’t think they understand that the QR Code IS the URL." Notice the word order. He's "guessing what they think", and his guess is that they think he can "magically cause the QR code to redirect to another URL" -- the object of the sentence is not his domain, and not his URL, but the QR code. (He's saying that they've phrased it as if there is a QR code database where the code must be looked up.)