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My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

I don't get the "expired QR codes" comments here. Don't you all test your generated QR code to see if it actually contains what you want it to, without 3rd party redirects or tracking added? Still good job on making an honest tool that doesn't do such bullshit.

Well see that's the thing, it works just fine for a few days, so when you go to test it, it works. Then you put the QR code where others can see it, thinking it works, and it does. A few days later someone tries to scan it & says "hey your code wants me to pay for something" and *then* you find out.

I see, but what I don't understand is not verifying the contents of a QR code after generating it. With an app like BinaryEye you see exactly what the QR code contains, and if that is not the same as what was entered in the generator, something is wrong. A QR code itself cannot expire.

With the current state of the internet I think it's good to have a healthy dose of skepticism towards "free" stuff. As for BinaryEye, that's just the QR code reader I use, I think most QR code readers should show a preview of the URL that's encoded, so that would work just as well to verify the QR.

Notably, the one in the iphone doesn't do that. The camera app does, but if you use the "qr code reader" function your only option is to allow it to open all future scanned ones in a specific app. It's infuriating.