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The #1 reason I hate QR codes (edit: directing to a website to order & pay for a restaurant online) is because they make you agree to further terms and conditions like collecting data on you.
All just to fucking order food.
Shit should 100% be illegal.
I'm not against the concept of having digital ordering as an option. But it must be an option, and without any data collection
I don't think you have to agree to terms to look at a menu. Maybe a cookie popup though. Those are annoying!
Cookie popups are terms and conditions. They could easily make a page without any tracking cookies, only the ones nessecary for the service to functions, and they wouldn't need the popup.
Oh sorry, I was referring to when the ordering is through a website, where you provide your email and phone number in order to pay.
Often times, they're harvesting your personal details.
I really wish it were possible to mask my number, but in my country that's not really possible.
The one thing I've done, is get an alt number as an esim, that I use to receive codes, or whoever you're required to provid a number.
Mean I know with certainty any call I get on that number is spam, or any text I receive I haven't initiated it spam.
I'd much prefer it I could get throw away numbers though
0.o A QR code is basically just a data-encoding format and is mostly used to store a link to something. I'm not sure where ToS/etc. come into that.
You'll be redirected to a website, and then you'll get asked to allow cookies, etc.
Cool story but not really qr codes fault
That's because, unlike an AI, I deduced context from the entire thread and concluded that "I hate QR codes" was not an expression of disapproval of the technical concept of a QR code (i.e. encoding data), but how they are used in an obnoxious way to redirect a user to a website (usually with a menu).
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I wasn't sure if the person meant that or fundamentally misunderstood what QR codes where and how they worked. Just wanted to clarify in case it were the latter.
This was a tiresome convo to read. Please work on your context clues.
Made an edit for clarity.
QR codes are great, linking me to a website where I need to provide my email and phone number to get food is annoying