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QR codes for restaurant menus: threat or menace?

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Bassman59:

--- Quote from: ataradov on July 27, 2021, 04:59:10 pm ---It offered a free trial, but you needed to register with email. And NYT will not get my email.
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The NY Times has my email address, because I subscribe to the digital edition of the paper.

But it's trivial to get around the paywall. Really.

Bassman59:

--- Quote from: ataradov on July 28, 2021, 06:32:32 am ---Another danger of scanning random QR codes in the restaurants - https://imgur.com/gallery/ox3EQ30

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That comes really close to hello.jpg.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 27, 2021, 04:04:38 pm ---Recently, supposedly to reduce contagion through infected paper menus, restaurants are adopting QR code systems for menu listings and ordering.
An interesting article about how this tracks you, the consumer, in today's NY Times business section:  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/technology/qr-codes-tracking.html

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SARS-Cov-2 mostly spreads throught the air, rather than contaminated surfaces. The risk of infection through paper menus is tiny. If they really want to minimise infection: open the windows, keep people apart and get everyone to wear masks, when they're not at their tables, but that won't be so popular.  It sounds like a good excuse to market something, for data collection.

tszaboo:
I had this before. Went to an open air pub like a year ago, it had to be that, everything else was closed. The orders were only accepted online. You had to scan a code and pay. I went to the bar and tried to order a beer, they told me they cannot serve me, I have to order online.  :wtf:

Zero999:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on July 28, 2021, 11:51:27 am ---I had this before. Went to an open air pub like a year ago, it had to be that, everything else was closed. The orders were only accepted online. You had to scan a code and pay. I went to the bar and tried to order a beer, they told me they cannot serve me, I have to order online.  :wtf:

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I hope they had wi-fi, otherwise it would rule me out, as I don't have a data plan, because I have no use for one.

I've heard similar stories in the UK. The main complaint is it discriminates against the elderly who are less likely to have a phone and more often than not hang around in pubs, because it's the only place they can go to meet others.

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