wait, tech nerds were all like "don't ever scan QR codes! they're so dangerous!" when we wanted them to play with and check for counterfeit skincare and trade art show info and allergy info and stuff
last few years, though, all of a sudden they're plastering them on everything, too. did something improve in the meantime that makes them safer to scan, or was this a weird quiet culture war someone lost and now the fun toy is only used for tech stuff?
@pamela if I'm thinking of the same thing you are, then I believe what happened is that the OS default QR code scanners got to handling them more safely
@fool it didn't seem like it needed more safety checking than any other link we'd click, so if it wasn't getting any that would do it
@pamela @fool my phone’s default qr reader (the camera) shows me what the decoded link is and lets me click it, which i distinctly remember the original qr readers not doing so I think “they’ve been improved slightly” may be a piece of it? But yeah also definitely just “they’re no longer new and scary” lol
