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by pause_break 2420 days ago
Can you give some practical examples of where that would be useful? Honestly curious, don't know much about this space.
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Physical sticker exposed to the environment. Scrapes/marks are common, they would render the “HR” code useless, but the QR would be fine. Or at least stay fine for longer. So the trade off becomes: do I post something that will be accessible to everyone, even those without a phone, for a week; or do I post something that will be accessible to everyone with a phone for two weeks. Given almost everyone has a phone, the answer is obvious. (Making up the times, but you get the idea)
A lot of applications centralize their logo in a QR code, obscuring a significant chunk. Yet the code scans fine and there is some nice custom recognizability for which service it is.
Maybe scanning from photos where the code is obscured, bad quality, almost-trashed physical codes.