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I have seen this a lot lately. I am curious to understand how these are used and/or what benefit they provide?

• rolph 3y ago
  drive by exploits
• mattl 3y ago
  What happens if you take a photo of the ad? Does it takes you to the website?
• Festro 3y ago
  I've not seen this before. Looks more like visual artefacting from a graphics processing error to me on first glance. Where was this specific ad? Might try to find one in the wild myself? If it is a QR code it seems like maybe some kind of proprietary watermarking tech to track ads for some very specific purpose. My phone either can't lock onto it or can't read it.
  • yeahdef 3y ago
    I see them all the time. Here’s an example on drudgereport. https://imgur.com/a/hOl9x2m https://imgur.com/a/hOl9x2m I am using an iPhone 13 browsing via chrome. iOS 17.0
    • yeahdef 3y ago
      Also occurs in safari