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Select a different provider for the qr bang #64

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NoahAndrews opened this issue Apr 8, 2024 · 5 comments
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Select a different provider for the qr bang #64

NoahAndrews opened this issue Apr 8, 2024 · 5 comments
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NoahAndrews commented Apr 8, 2024

The qr bang to generate a QR code currently uses qrserver.com, which doesn't even have a homepage. I have zero reason to trust this entity to always faithfully represent the provided text as a QR code, without modifying any links to be malicious now or in the future. Please select a different QR code generator (ideally, one run by Kagi).

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NoahAndrews commented Apr 8, 2024

Apparently they used to be a software contracting firm? https://web.archive.org/web/20230318101626/http://qrserver.com/

The title back then referred to "Faworsoft software", which I assume is this site, but the only page of theirs that loads for me is their corporate policies. It definitely doesn't feel like an active company, and if they're defunct, their assets can be sold to the highest bidder.

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Thank you for bringing this up! We'll investigate hosting our own QR code generator and get back to you about this issue.

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FYI the api.qrserver.com system is referenced on https://goqr.me/api/https://goqr.me/ details the project including its two authors and doesn't seem to contain any tracking scripts or advertisements aside from referral links to an on-demand printing site, so I think it's safe to keep in place until Kagi can implement an internally-hosted system.

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Ok good, they're definitely saying the right things, at the very least. I think that site wasn't working when I was looking into this, which made it feel even more sketchy.

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I've started a corresponding thread for this issue on the Kagi Feedback site to hopefully bring some more attention to it: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4427-provide-internally-hosted-qr-code-generator

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