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Based on the salt comment, I went through my cupboard and scanned several products. Here's the results: • The Red Bull can leads to a full page advertisement f
by nwh 14y ago
Based on the salt comment, I went through my cupboard and scanned several products. Here's the results:
• The Red Bull can leads to a full page advertisement for Red Bull Mobile, which is more than useless.
• A generic oak lettuce leads to a recipe page containing, you guessed it, salad suggestions.
• A cleaning spray lead to the companies Facebook page, with a very large image asking me to like their page.
• A bottle of reasonably pricy champagne lead to a page full of gleaming reviews, and a copy of the information that was on the label anyway.
• A well known bleach product (scanned weeks back) also contained a link to their Facebook page.
It's hardly enough of a reason for me to scan these in the future.
- sageikosa 14y agoI was just peeling a banana this morning that had a QR code on its sticker. I suspected it would be a page about bananas, but unless it told me this banana I was about to eat had been recalled, I really couldn't care less.
- visualcsharp 14y agoYou are correct. It's simply another advertising portal. I completely ignore QR codes for the reasons you mentioned. I think of them as hyperlinks in another form that must be "clicked" with an app.