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A lot of online QR code generators provide this service (often by default without making it clear that they are injecting their URL). It can definitely be useful to "change the URL" after deploying the code, but you still have the same problem that you don't control the domain. If you stop making payments or the company goes out of business then you are out of luck.

IDK if any of these services support custom domains. So that you could have qr.mycompany.example or whatever. That way if something goes wrong with the service you can at least direct it to something else.

But I think in general you should control your URLs. Especially for printed material. Often this would be something like a short URL or some other small name that can be directed to the intended final site and changed at any point.



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