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No Scan Do (i.kinja-img.com)
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[โ€“] Arcka@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the restaurant doesn't have a good enough reputation that I couldn't trust the QR they provided (which displays the URL so I can inspect it before launching the web browser), I also wouldn't want to trust my health to eating there.

It isn't like some random thing you found on the sidewalk.

[โ€“] gila@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure these are just an echo of the same concerns people put forward when URLs first started being included in signage, due to general privacy/security concerns with the internet. Somehow we got through it!