ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n. can i make sure that doesnt happen? also, im using google to generate them, is there a foss alternative as im scared of tracking. lastly, can i make the qr code redirect to a specific page of a pdf as i want people to be able to scan them and immediately land on a specific part

        • shikitohno@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Could be for the sort of awful filters so frequently employed by schools that just block content based on matching a list of banned words exactly, like I used to have in high school years ago. We couldn’t visit a page on breast cancer without an admin override while learning about cancer in the school library as part of an assignment, all because their awful content filter flagged the page as porn for having the word breast in the page.

          • Devi@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            I worked for a college that banned the word ‘adult’. We had a course called ‘Adult nursing’. You could not access the course list of the colleges own website because of this.

            Fun addition, I was the IT tech, I had to spend a ridiculous amount of time whitelisting different domains.

  • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    1 year ago

    A QR code just links to a URL. If you link to a URL that you own or control, it’ll be fine. The problem comes when people use a link shortener that allows the destination to be changed later, or if they lose control of the domain or its backend.

  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n. can i make sure that doesnt happen?

    This is kind of confusing, or at least leaves a lot of detail out 😆 Did the domain lapse? Did their short-URL account get hacked? In any case, your QR code will just be encoding a URL. Ultimately, any URL can be redirected by someone out there; so it’s just a matter of trusting that whoever has that access won’t act maliciously, and that malicious actors can’t gain access.

    also, im using google to generate them, is there a foss alternative as im scared of tracking.

    There absolutely are, just search and you should find plenty. Again, though, the QR code is just encoding a URL. Does Google use their own short-URL service for their generated QR codes? Just scan the QR code and look at the URL it encodes. If it’s only the URL you want - not some Google short-URL that then redirects to the URL you entered - then there can’t be any tracking done on it by Google.

    lastly, can i make the qr code redirect to a specific page of a pdf

    Covered by another commenter already, but for completeness: yes, you just add #page={n) at the end of the URL, e.g. https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2020-01/sample.pdf#page=5

  • m105@discuss.tchncs.de
    51·
    1 year ago

    Sure there are foss qr code generators, I don’t know any at the moment but with a simple google search you should find what you want. About the pdf on a specific page, I think you can add #page={pageNumber} in the url and should open it at the given page.