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Ok, but then I'd still prefer a method that sends users to a unique URL. OP's method may help with obfuscating the changing of the code, but I'm sure there are ways to better achieve that without having to introduce this quasi-randomness. The simplest would probably be to just to regularly hide/show the code (which would happen anyway on a typical digital ad display that cycles through a number of ads).

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But hypothetically, the owner of the ad might pop in and make sure

1. the ad looks correct, and

2. the URL is the one they expect

So there may be a use case for a QR code that looks almost identical but goes somewhere else, allowing them to swap it out while someone is looking at it without them realizing.

A niche use case, to be sure, but being able to exploit a niche vulnerability is a skill.

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