Free QR code

Rechuchote

Is there anywhere to get a genuinely free QR code? I've generated one on a "free" site, and got cards printed with it, and now the site has emailed me telling me that I need to pay a subscription to keep it going.

brianwalshcork

I've used: https://qrcode.tec-it.com/en/vcard a couple of times.

What do you see when you scan your code with a smart phone app?

Edit: Which free site did you use?

Rechuchote

The "free" site I used (which is now asking for a subscription for the QR code to continue) was https://www.qr-code-generator.com/

As you see, its offer is "QR Code Generator: Create your QR Code for free". I'm not sure how long ago it was that I set it up, but around a fortnight. It's at this stage that they demand a subscription for the code to keep working.

Scanning the QR code leads to a website that I entered as its target.

Rechuchote

brianwalshcork wrote: »

I've used: https://qrcode.tec-it.com/en/vcard a couple of times.

How long have you used these codes for?

ED E

Theres nothing in QR that requires a subscription. You're just using a sh1t site. A QR is just another way of saying abcd or 1234.



This directs you to boards.ie and will for infinity.



https://kazuhikoarase.github.io/qrcode-generator/js/demo/

brianwalshcork

The first code I generated was a couple of months back.

I tested the site that you used - they don't encode the data that you enter, instead they encode a URL to their site, (https://qrco.de/xxxxx) where xxxxx is a unique ID for your URL (or whatever data you encoded).

Effectively, this means that they can and more than likely will deactivate the URL on their end if you don't subscribe.

Unless the subscription fee is negligible, write off the cost of the cards and use the site I posted, or any other one, and generate a "clean" QR code that doesn't involve redirects etc.

ED E

Actually it seems the site you're using is BSing you. Save the image file, use that file. Ignore that website (add to spam filter).

von Smallhausen

I have used QRCode Monkey (https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/) a few times for work when putting a product guide together.

The site you used OP is rubbish, I tried them before too.

Rechuchote

brianwalshcork wrote: »

Unless the subscription fee is negligible, write off the cost of the cards and use the site I posted, or any other one, and generate a "clean" QR code that doesn't involve redirects etc.

That's my plan.

Here's the QR I generated through their "free" site. It was for cards to hand out to working people, for their CEO to ask the Government for safe cycling infrastructure



(Sorry that's so huge; I don't know how to make it smaller.)

ED E

That links to "QRcode.de" not the site you actually want. That's how they cut you off.

Real QRs don't need to bounce you through a domain redirection.

Rechuchote

Well, that's a classic case of ciall ceannaithe.Thanks.

Rechuchote

Incidentally, until today that QR code showed on a phone camera as linking to the address I'd set it up for. How the site managed to change the address showing when you read it with a phone camera to the German address I don't know

OP, you may not like to hear it but that's just your fault. Sign Up for Free means it costs money. And the menu has a Pricing section.

It's 5euro a month. If people have the cards, you have to pay it for a while until you reckon no one is using them.

Rechuchote

Deleted User wrote: »

OP, you may not like to hear it but that's just your fault. Sign Up for Free means it costs money. And the menu has a Pricing section.

It's 5euro a month. If people have the cards, you have to pay it for a while until you reckon no one is using them.

Er… no.

TheChizler

Rechuchote wrote: »

Incidentally, until today that QR code showed on a phone camera as linking to the address I'd set it up for. How the site managed to change the address showing when you read it with a phone camera to the German address I don't know

The qrco.de site automatically http-redirects you to cyclingworks, the phone is just following that redirect. They can turn off that redirect or replace it with whatever they want any time.

C:\Users\<<><><>>\Downloads>wget https://qrco.de/bb9fEZ
--2019-06-10 18:13:24-- https://qrco.de/bb9fEZ
Resolving qrco.de (qrco.de)... 54.246.175.20, 54.194.17.93
Connecting to qrco.de (qrco.de)|54.246.175.20|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://dublin.cyclingworks.org [following]
--2019-06-10 18:13:24-- https://dublin.cyclingworks.org/
Resolving dublin.cyclingworks.org (dublin.cyclingworks.org)... 159.69.4.77
Connecting to dublin.cyclingworks.org (dublin.cyclingworks.org)|159.69.4.77|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

What are you posting that for? 99% of the time, Free to Sign Up means it costs money eventually. Otherwise it would say Free. And Pricing is in the site menu.

Just learn from it. It's a cheap lesson and if you tell me I'm wrong instead of accepting it, you'll make the same mistake again.

Rechuchote

Did someone say there's a site that can reveal what's inside (as it were) a QR code? Generated another and I'd like to take a look at it.

RobertFoster

Rechuchote wrote: »

Did someone say there's a site that can reveal what's inside (as it were) a QR code? Generated another and I'd like to take a look at it.

https://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx

Rechuchote

Thanks! The QR code I now have is plain. Excellent.