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Especially if they mainly turn out to be URLs I could have read in plain English

And what good is reading a URL in plain English?

I think billybob is arguing that a short message/url like "Find this device online: www.example.com/device" is better than both "Find this device online: {QR Code}" AND "Visit http://www.example.com/cms/products/industrial?product=09278....