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More than once, I've received an email with a link that goes to a PDF with a QR code, which leads to a website for usually making reservations or a payment or some such thing. Why would anyone want that??? I understand why someone might print a QR code for a paper poster, or in-person presentation, but in an email link?!? Multiple people have done this since Covid, including multiple school administrators.
When I receive these emails, I open up my computer and phone, load the PDF on my computer, scan the QR with my phone, load the site, copy the URL, email the URL to myself, then open it on my computer. Am I missing something essential about how this is supposed to work?
Relatedly, the schools around here have gone cashless. I can see how that would be convenient. But instead of using Square or something that charges 3% or so, they use a payment processor I've never heard of before that charges $1 per transaction, mostly for transactions of $5 - $10. Is it providing a real service of protecting the schools from liability somehow?
It's a baffling workflow since it's completely useless for phone users. It requires a second device to work.
One workaround though is to just take a screenshot of the QR code and drop it into a tool like cyberchef. QR codes are pretty straightforward to parse.
I think the primary phone users look for a printed copy? Someone usually prints the document out and tapes it to the door or leaves it at the front desk, and I suppose that's how the flyer makers imagine it being used.
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