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Dear restaurant owners:We ALL hate the QR code menu.

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  • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

    Dear restaurant owners:
    We ALL hate the QR code menu.
    Stop.
    -everyone

    mokhtarstork@zirk.usM This user is from outside of this forum
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    #59

    @cmconseils I refuse to fill up one... and get them to do it.

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    • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

      Dear restaurant owners:
      We ALL hate the QR code menu.
      Stop.
      -everyone

      qgustavor@urusai.socialQ This user is from outside of this forum
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      #60

      @cmconseils I don't hate. I hate when it's the main option or, worse, the only option.

      Some restaurants put better photos of their food on the website rather than in the print menu. And I'm biased, I develop websites.

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      • robot@wetdry.worldR robot@wetdry.world

        @spiegelmama @cmconseils I often use a dedicated barcode app for qr codes, so I can preview and save the link for later (it has a history page) and it shows up in my share sheet.

        QR hijacking, while possible is overblown imo

        I do not like link shorteners on qr codes tho, those go in the bin (metaphorically)

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        #61

        @robot Physical menu hijacking is impossible, though. Why would I ever prefer to take out my phone at the beginning of the meal so I could view a menu on a tiny screen instead of on a piece of paper or on a menu board?

        Also, the filthy public (kidding, mostly) has access to a surprising amount of café QR menus here. I don't want someone's crappy lifestyle store to invade my phone.
        @cmconseils

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        • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

          Dear restaurant owners:
          We ALL hate the QR code menu.
          Stop.
          -everyone

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          #62

          @cmconseils The temptation to leave a piece of paper with a QR code on a table at a restaurant that stops just shy of being actual malware if any of them ever tell me to fuck off for wanting a paper menu. The whole reason people reluctantly agreed to QR codes was because we thought we could get COVID from touching a menu but somehow didn't put two and two together for eating inside a restaurant. Now that nobody gives a shit even in the face of a potential pandemic from a disease that actually does stick to surfaces and in the air long enough for that to be a concern, it's all the downsides without the benefit of performative sanitisation and courtesy.

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          • spiegelmama@infosec.exchangeS spiegelmama@infosec.exchange

            @robot Physical menu hijacking is impossible, though. Why would I ever prefer to take out my phone at the beginning of the meal so I could view a menu on a tiny screen instead of on a piece of paper or on a menu board?

            Also, the filthy public (kidding, mostly) has access to a surprising amount of café QR menus here. I don't want someone's crappy lifestyle store to invade my phone.
            @cmconseils

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            #63

            @spiegelmama @cmconseils honestly I think they are nice for the situ where the waitstaff has taken all your menus already and you want to check it again without having to wait for them to come around and ask for a menu again, or you are outside the restaurant/waiting to be seated and want to check the menu without having to figure out the website URL is and where the menu page is. That's why I said "as an option", I think a physical menu has to exist as a base, even if you have to ask for it.

            The QR code *only* ordering/menus people are mentioning elsewhere in the thread sound horrible.

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            • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

              Dear restaurant owners:
              We ALL hate the QR code menu.
              Stop.
              -everyone

              wendythedruid@thistlenfern.orgW This user is from outside of this forum
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              #64

              @cmconseils I am glad I am not the only one who feels this way.

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              • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                Dear restaurant owners:
                We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                Stop.
                -everyone

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                #65

                @cmconseils except when they lead to a website that has pictures of the dishes

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                • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                  Dear restaurant owners:
                  We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                  Stop.
                  -everyone

                  nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafeN This user is from outside of this forum
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                  wrote last edited by
                  #66

                  @cmconseils If I could boost this a dozen or more times a day, I would.

                  I walk out of QR code menu resturants.

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                  • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                    Dear restaurant owners:
                    We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                    Stop.
                    -everyone

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                    #67

                    @cmconseils not just restaurants

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                    • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                      Dear restaurant owners:
                      We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                      Stop.
                      -everyone

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                      #68

                      @cmconseils Nope. I like it. Can order when I’m ready. Don’t have to wait/signal waiter for when I finally get my bill and can leave at my own terms. And don’t get judged for what I order or don’t order. Find the conventional restaurant setting always a bit prisonesque - from the moment you sit down you are at their mercy. Not with the QR codes.

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                      • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                        Dear restaurant owners:
                        We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                        Stop.
                        -everyone

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                        #69

                        @cmconseils I’ll be the voice of dissent here but I don’t really see the problem.

                        I just wish that:
                        - An digital menu always showed the prices
                        - restaurants with bad cell service would not have a QR code as a link but a QR code as the actual menu encrypted in the code
                        - FUCKING TAX AND TIP WOULD BE INCLUDED in all the prices
                        - No junk fees
                        - again, I’m sorry, but fuck your tip. I’ll pay it. not from the bottom of my heart but because I know that you don’t make a living wage and we’re in this situation because it’s social construct.

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                        • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                          Dear restaurant owners:
                          We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                          Stop.
                          -everyone

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                          #70

                          @cmconseils True that. I don’t go out to eat place my own order either. Next thing they’ll want us to go back in the kitchen and do our own dishes.

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                          • cmconseils@mastodon.socialC cmconseils@mastodon.social

                            Dear restaurant owners:
                            We ALL hate the QR code menu.
                            Stop.
                            -everyone

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                            #71

                            @cmconseils it's for qris

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                            • antdude@mastodon.socialA antdude@mastodon.social

                              @cmconseils not just restaurants

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                              #72

                              @antdude
                              Yes. Not just QR code menus.

                              I see QR codes displayed in "interactive" ads on my streaming services.

                              I am NOT going to interact with those ads. I especially am not going to get up off the couch, saunter across the room to grab my phone, and open my QR code app to "find out more" about their shitty products.

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                              • harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaH harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza

                                @lydiaconwell @cmconseils someone should start making those lol.
                                definitely a gap in the market

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                                #73

                                @harrysentonbury @lydiaconwell @cmconseils that's actually a pretty common #scam:
                                - #FakeShops using #Typosquatting-Domains!
                                It's called #Quishing (#QRcode + #Phishing)

                                Or as we say in #Germany:
                                "Get #Klöckner'd!" (aka. get #phished!)…
                                https://taz.de/Angriff-via-Signal/!6174144/

                                #Phishing #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #QRcodes #Enshittification

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                                • realglob@mastodon.socialR realglob@mastodon.social

                                  @mkoek @otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils wait a minute since most of them are static just take a picture of one and then wait for someone to sit there and then scan the code, join their menu, and put them into crippling debt. Funny pranks to do to your worst enemy.

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                                  #74

                                  @RealGlob @mkoek @otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils yes.

                                  Also you can #quish the shit out of those.
                                  https://c.im/@kkarhan/116480051184201482

                                  #Quishing #Phishing

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                                  • hellomiakoda@pdx.socialH hellomiakoda@pdx.social

                                    @lydiaconwell @cmconseils
                                    🤔️ A QR code that takes one to an alternative, more honest copy of the menu, with identical aesthetic.

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                                    @hellomiakoda @lydiaconwell @cmconseils If I wasn't keen on staying employable and without any records, I'd make big money #quishing...

                                    TelH90 (@kkarhan@c.im)

                                    @harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils@mastodon.social that's actually a pretty common #scam: - #FakeShops using #Typosquatting-Domains! It's called #Quishing (#QRcode + #Phishing) Or as we say in #Germany: "Get #Klöckner'd!" (aka. get #phished!)… https://taz.de/Angriff-via-Signal/!6174144/ #Phishing #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #QRcodes #Enshittification

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                                    • luciano@social.wobe.qzz.ioL luciano@social.wobe.qzz.io

                                      @cmconseils So true, I hate having to scan those QR codes just to see the menu.

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                                      @luciano @cmconseils I'd refuse to enter any place that did this!

                                      TelH90 (@kkarhan@c.im)

                                      @harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils@mastodon.social that's actually a pretty common #scam: - #FakeShops using #Typosquatting-Domains! It's called #Quishing (#QRcode + #Phishing) Or as we say in #Germany: "Get #Klöckner'd!" (aka. get #phished!)… https://taz.de/Angriff-via-Signal/!6174144/ #Phishing #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #QRcodes #Enshittification

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                                      • nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.socialN nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

                                        @NickSchwanck @cmconseils The problem with "voting with your dollars" as they call it is that it doesn't work when everyone does the bad things. You can refuse to go to one that does a bad thing, but then you'll just have to go to another that does...

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                                        @nazokiyoubinbou @NickSchwanck @cmconseils well, fortunately this #Enshittification hasn't reached #Germany yet.

                                        - And it won't because it's considered *extremely disrespecful* to fiddle on the phone whilst dining out!

                                        TelH90 (@kkarhan@c.im)

                                        @harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza @lydiaconwell@todon.nl @cmconseils@mastodon.social that's actually a pretty common #scam: - #FakeShops using #Typosquatting-Domains! It's called #Quishing (#QRcode + #Phishing) Or as we say in #Germany: "Get #Klöckner'd!" (aka. get #phished!)… https://taz.de/Angriff-via-Signal/!6174144/ #Phishing #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #QRcodes #Enshittification

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                                        • uair@autistics.lifeU uair@autistics.life

                                          @nazokiyoubinbou

                                          It's been my experience that the vast majority of us simply walk around looking for ever-better choices to do their thinking for them. I can count on one hand how many people I've met who actually do their own thinking. Mostly they just regurgitate calibrated phrases put out by professional persuaders.

                                          If I hear something like "Sleepy Joe" out of you, I write you off as an extension of someone else's mind and, sadly, someone who lopped off a big bit of their own humanity.

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                                          @Uair @nazokiyoubinbou propably because thinking is labourois and hard, so many prefer to outsorce their faculties to some new Oracke, like GarbageChatbot5000.

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