The store chain #Lidl sells food and non-food items. All non-food items that come with a paper manual have this bogus QR code on the first page.

Normally it’s a very good practice to put a QR code on manual cover pages so people can trivially fetch an electronic copy. It’s especially useful in light of the fact that all the protectionist walled-garden manual websites that clobber search results tend to at least show a preview of the 1st page of the manual. You can then avoid going through all the hoops by going directly to the manufacturer’s repository.

WTF is Lidl thinking? They cover part of the QR code with a stick figure which breaks the QR code. I’m tempted to call them assholes but I suppose it could be incompetence.

Or is my QR scanner app just out of date? Is anyone able to decode the QR code attached to this post?