Dear restaurant owners:We ALL hate the QR code menu.
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@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.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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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@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@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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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils I am glad I am not the only one who feels this way.
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils except when they lead to a website that has pictures of the dishes
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils not just restaurants
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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@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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Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone@cmconseils it's for qris
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@cmconseils not just restaurants
@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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@lydiaconwell @cmconseils someone should start making those lol.
definitely a gap in the market@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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@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.
@RealGlob @mkoek @otte_homan @lydiaconwell @cmconseils yes.
Also you can #quish the shit out of those.
https://c.im/@kkarhan/116480051184201482 -
@lydiaconwell @cmconseils
️ A QR code that takes one to an alternative, more honest copy of the menu, with identical aesthetic.@hellomiakoda @lydiaconwell @cmconseils If I wasn't keen on staying employable and without any records, I'd make big money #quishing...
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@cmconseils So true, I hate having to scan those QR codes just to see the menu.
@luciano @cmconseils I'd refuse to enter any place that did this!
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@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...
@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!
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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.
@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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@cmconseils QR code menu only found on an Instagram page.
@gavin57 @cmconseils or as I'd say in #Germany:
A #GDPR violation!
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@cmconseils Luckily I don't eat out anywhere where this is the case. Do the QR codes give them your phone # or any identifying info?
@entichahoosh @cmconseils #QRcodes do usually lead to websites, so besides the rish of #Quishing anything can be done, including #InfoStealing everyone's details they enter!
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I'd leave immediately. Every time. How very *dare* they?!
