Worst QR code adverts: New blog highlights perils of mobile barcodes

Mar 12, 2012 | Uncategorized

Quick Response (QR) codes are growing in popularity, but they are appearing in increasingly bizarre and inappropriate places, as this new blog shows. The Tumblr blog WTF QR Codes has grown in popularity in recent weeks, allowing users to submit bad examples of QR codes (barcodes that can be scanned via smartphone cameras to reveal […]

Quick Response (QR) codes are growing in popularity, but they are appearing in increasingly bizarre and inappropriate places, as this new blog shows. The Tumblr blog WTF QR Codes has grown in popularity in recent weeks, allowing users to submit bad examples of QR codes (barcodes that can be scanned via smartphone cameras to reveal online information and offers).


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Here are some of our favourites below, but visit the blog for many more examples.
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Source: WTF QR Codes

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