From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-14 21:16, Richmond wrote:   
   > "Carlos E. R."  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-02-14 13:29, Chris Green wrote:   
   >>> Richmond  wrote:   
   >>>> Chris Green  writes:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I am trying to scan a QR code and failing miserably.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If I just use 'Camera' then nothing at all happens when the QR code   
   >>>>> is shown.  Searching tells me to "Enable Google Lens SUggestions"   
   >>>>> in my camera app's 'General' settings, there isn't any 'General'   
   >>>>> settings area and none of the options available are anything like   
   >>>>> "Enable Google Lens SUggestions".   
   >>   
   >> Some camera apps just do it, some just don't. There are alternative   
   >> apps.   
   >>   
   >>>>> So, I tried running Google Lens directly, that sees the QR code OK   
   >>>>> and if I ask it tells me that it's a QR code and all about QR   
   >>>>> codes. But it doesn't seem to want to actually scan the code and go   
   >>>>> to the web site that it is (hopefully) pointing at.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What am I doing wrong?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The phone I'm using is an Umidigi running Android 11.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The android search box, by default a google search, has a camera   
   >>>> icon on the right, which I use to scan. When scanning a code it   
   >>>> typically will display a web address and then I have to click on it.   
   >>>>>> Brilliant, thank you!  >> Why did none of my web searches for   
   >>>> help on this tell me to do it >> from >> within a web browser app?   
   >>>> Yes, I suppose it's a bit obvious but not >> to someone very   
   >>>> computer (as opposed to phone) oriented.   
   >>   
   >> It did not occur me to do this. Of course, this method involves google   
   >> and internet, is not private. You may later get commercials related to   
   >> that qrcode.   
   >   
   > Android is Google's operating system, the default browser is Google   
   > Chrome, how will you visit a website without Google knowing about it? If   
   > you start with the camera app, it's going to open a web browser anyway.   
      
   If the camera offers to open the link by calling a browser of your   
   choice and you select Firefox, Google doesn't learn the contents of the   
   QR nor that you encountered a QRcode. Not directly.   
      
   Google may find out the information indirectly via cookies and scripts   
   on the pages visited, of course.   
      
   >   
   > I think Opera had a scanner built in, the last time I looked, but Opera   
   > is owned by a Chinese company, but then the phone was probably made by a   
   > Chinese company.   
      
      
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