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Strongly agree on this one. Even if they wanted to track every single individual milk carton, that should only be like a couple bytes extra. Overly complex QR codes look ugly and are harder to scan

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WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The complexity is likely a product of redundancy and error correction in the QR code rather than making it unique. You begin to run into issues with camera resolution and whatnot, but in theory those codes are likely more reliable.

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- NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  QR codes have built in redundancy and error correction though
  
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  - noxy@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    yeah, qr codes have different levels of error correction that you can specify, could very be well turned up to the max
    
    or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason
    
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    dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    or the url has a ton of tracking params appended to it for some reason
    
    Ideally you should use a short URL that redirects to the full URL. The tracking parameters should be on the long URL, not the short one.
    
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  - WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.
    
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