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QR code on ketchup bottle leads to porn site
2015 Jun 22, 10:41am 1,905 views 8 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2015 Jun 22, 11:49am
Only people looking for trouble actually ever try to resolve QR codes.
I've never EVER snapped a QR code, nor have I ever felt the urge to. Nor would I?
That's like clicking on a link that you have no Idea where it goes, or what it does.
Dan8267
2015 Jun 22, 4:42pm
QR code on ketchup bottle leads to porn site
I want to know what loser actually brought out their phone, snapped a picture of the QR code on a bottle of ketchup, and went to the website resolved by that code.
The only thing I can think of is that CIC uses ketchup as his lube when masturbating to Animal Planet specials and naturally was expecting to find oxen porn on the other side of that QR code.
HydroCabron
2015 Jun 22, 5:48pm
This tells us all we need to know about Obama, millennials, race relations in America, and the Fed.
zzyzzx
2015 Jun 22, 6:12pm
I want to know what loser actually brought out their phone, snapped a picture of the QR code on a bottle of ketchup, and went to the website resolved by that code.
Daniel Korell, a ketchup lover in Germany.
Dan8267
2015 Jun 22, 6:40pm
Ah, you have to steal jokes just like you have to steal avatars. How pathetic.
curious2
2015 Jun 22, 7:17pm
QR code on ketchup bottle leads to porn site
If all QR codes did that, people might start using them.
Dan8267
2015 Jun 22, 10:18pm
QR code on ketchup bottle leads to porn site
If all QR codes did that, people might start using them.
'Cause it's really hard to find porn on the Internet. All you have to do is Google "Call It Crazy and goats".
http://mashable.com/2015/06/18/ketchup-qr-code-porn/
Daniel Korell, a ketchup lover in Germany, decided to try using a QR code that was on the back of his Heinz Hot (as in "spicy" hot) Ketchup bottle. To his surprise, he found that the code lead his browser to a porn site.
He tried the code on several different phones and even wrote in the website's URL manually — all to the same result.
Heinz apologized for the code in the comments, but noted that Korell's bottle was a "remnant" of a previous campaign. Apparently, Heinz discontinued their ownership of the web address after that particular campaign ended in 2014.
And if you leave a web address alone for too long, it will end up as porn. That is the rule of the Internet.
Korell pointed out that even though the campaign is ended, plenty of bottles are still in people's homes. "It's incomprehensible that [Heinz] didn't reserve the domain for one or two years. A .de domain name really doesn't cost the Earth," he said on Facebook.