From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Richmond  wrote:   
   [...]   
      
   > I've often puzzled over QR codes which just tell you to scan them,   
   > without saying what to use to scan them. Depending on the context a QR   
   > code could contain personal information, e.g. the ones which appear on   
   > electricity bills, and scanning them might result in that information   
   > being dumped into a search engine, which might not be what you want.   
      
     If the QR code does not (only) contain a link, the app doing the   
   scanning should *not* pass it to a web-browser, let alone to a search   
   engine. If the QR code *does* contain a link, it should *first* show you   
   the URL and then give you the opportunity to continue or cancel. Any   
   other behaviour is broken.   
      
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