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This link is behind a Google account wall so I can't access it. Is there a summary available, or an alternative link?

We've changed to a third party article about what I presume is the same issue. The submitted URL was https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&osi....

Thanks, I wasn't sure which link I should post. I read the German version on heise: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-.... But a German article doesn't really fit here. So I thought the original source might be good, didn't realize it was behind a Google login, since I was logged in already.

The camera app in Google Pixels running Android 12 tries to "fix" some URLs encoded QR codes, resulting in wrong URLs being shown and opened by the browser if the user clicks on the suggested link.

More specifically, it appears to truncate new generic TLDs to two characters.

From the issue tracker:

It also affects the newer generic TLDs. Some examples:

.apple becomes .ap

.amex becomes .am

.army, .arte, .art, and .arab become .ar

.audi, .audio., .auto, .and autos become .au

.bet and .beer become .be

Here is a screenshot of the issue as of time of posting. Forgive the zoom, the UI has a iframe scroll which isn't very capture friendly. https://i.imgur.com/hS8jBzw.png

This German it site has a story on it. Probably a translation service does a good enough job on it

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-...

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