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minus-squareNιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-219 hours agoQR codes have built in redundancy and error correction, though. I guess if they had it turned up to the max for some reason?
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoyeah, 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
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours 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.
minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoWhy is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.
minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 hours agoYeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.
QR codes have built in redundancy and error correction, though. I guess if they had it turned up to the max for some reason?
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
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.
Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.
Yeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.