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What's the deal with visible QR codes appearing on digital ads?

• yeahdef 3y ago
  I have seen this a lot lately. I am curious to understand how these are used and/or what benefit they provide?
  • rolph 3y ago
    drive by exploits
  • mattl 3y ago
    What happens if you take a photo of the ad? Does it takes you to the website?
  • Festro 3y ago
    I've not seen this before. Looks more like visual artefacting from a graphics processing error to me on first glance. Where was this specific ad? Might try to find one in the wild myself? If it is a QR code it seems like maybe some kind of proprietary watermarking tech to track ads for some very specific purpose. My phone either can't lock onto it or can't read it.
    • yeahdef 3y ago
      I see them all the time. Here’s an example on drudgereport. https://imgur.com/a/hOl9x2m https://imgur.com/a/hOl9x2m I am using an iPhone 13 browsing via chrome. iOS 17.0
      • yeahdef 3y ago
        Also occurs in safari
• tatumj 3y ago
  I found a reddit thread which claims it's related to this bug in iOS 17 Beta 2: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-17-release-notes#:~:text=separate%20alpha%20table.%20(-,110822373,-) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release...
• yeahdef 3y ago
  Found my answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/14hyn3n/pink_qrcode_like_overlays_on_ad_banners/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/14hyn3n/pink_qrcode_li... https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-17-release-notes https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release...