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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because otherwise you'd need an app that knows how to read and display the data

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

oh, I don't use my phone much, assumed they should be able to show some kind of plaintext from a QR code by default

[–] KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago

You can. I've encoded text in QR codes using both an android app and a desktop program.