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If you're actually concerned about your data, find an offline QR generator. Encoding a WiFi network is just adding some extra plaintext to a normal QR code.

One explanation is here:

https://pocketables.com/2022/01/how-to-format-that-wifi-qr-c...

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The irony it’s your infinitely better protected using a webpage in Incognito with network disconnected, than downloading an offline generator and running the binary on your computer.

Depends a lot on context. Generally I agree, but for this particular use case, I use QR Scanner from SECUSO. It's available on F-Droid, and I think it's a very good tool for the offline generation use-case. Android-only though, of course.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCo...

Android apps are not sandboxed. Even if they were, a webpage is safer.

My point is more about who wrote the source, and how that source made its way to me.

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