| ▲ | driverdan 5 hours ago |
| Any company that requires me to scan a QR code to make a purchase is losing my purchase. |
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| ▲ | comboy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You would not last long in China ;) (you pay by scanning QR code in .. well, everywhere) |
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| ▲ | gonzalohm 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | They don't like contactless technology or what? I don't think that scanning a QR code is significantly more involved but it's enough to be annoying | | |
| ▲ | xp84 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think partly because Google and Apple controlled the contactless bits of the phones for many years, the non-OS-makers like WeChat and AliPay made use of the open technology of QR codes. I think theoretically you could build equivalent things as they have with NFC today on those platforms but on the other hand being able to set up a “POS” with nothing more than a printer does have an appeal to it, even if writable nfc stickers cost 5 cents you still have to go buy some. | | |
| ▲ | codedokode 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | In Russia they tried to use bluetooth after being sanctioned from using NFC. |
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| ▲ | 627467 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | QR payments in china was already prevasive before contactless payments became prevasive in the west. And as others say: not all phones supported nfc at the time. Remember iBeacons on iP5? Wechat and Alipay was already everywhere by then | | | |
| ▲ | ZeWaka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's all WeChat Pay (or AliPay). | |
| ▲ | esperent 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lots of phones don't have NFC. All phones have cameras. |
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| ▲ | deepsun 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Many sit-in restaurants enforce QR codes ordering. Started during covid, but keeps happening, especially outside US in my experience. |
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| ▲ | kccqzy 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | They don’t enforce in my experience. Just don’t bring a phone and they will bring you a paper menu. | | |
| ▲ | ale42 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or if you want to play a bit, have a browser with some extension that breaks websites and show them "it doesn't work on my phone". Pranks apart, in my experience, I always got a paper menu when I asked for it. |
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| ▲ | kps 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Where are those ‘mark of the beast’ cranks when you need them? |
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| ▲ | Lammy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | A few millennia too late for that: the “mark of the beast” is just money — “so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark”. How does one buy or sell without money? Otherwise we would call it bartering. Some currencies are even literally called Marks lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_(currency) |
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| ▲ | x0x0 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's coming. The Poshmark morons demanded government id to buy a $35 shirt. On an established account, an address that matched my credit card, etc. The only answer is delete your account. |
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| ▲ | EmbarrassedHelp 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why the hell would they care who is buying it? They're getting paid either way. The only reason they'd care is because they want to sell your personal information. | | |
| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r an hour ago | parent [-] | | That is an incredibly long bow to draw from someone that obviously doesn’t know what they’re talking about and is willing to make massive jumps to conclusions. Do you know how ecommerce works? I agree that it is a bit absurd, but not nearly as absurd as your claim of “the only reason”. | | |
| ▲ | bryan_w 34 minutes ago | parent [-] | | People on this site don't really think deeply about what they type. They just say whatever is the most cynical in order to farm up votes |
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