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Sick of Ads on Free QR Generator

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2 pointsrubiocanino3 comments

I feel the same way, it's all very terrible and I'm glad you felt the same and made an alternative.

That said, exactly due to this problem I just use qr-cli whenever I've needed QR codes as it's pretty quick and handy.

Thanks! Yeah basically I did this also for the waifu, so she has a qr extension easy access, I haven't user qr-cli I will check it

MiQR.MX -- https://miqr.mx/s/h0omo20

I’m an Infrastructure/SRE guy, but I recently found myself extremely frustrated with a basic front-end problem: generating a simple QR code.

Almost every "free" QR generator out there is a trap. They either inject ads before redirecting the user, or they gate your "dynamic" link behind a $20/month paywall after it hits 100 scans. It’s a broken, hostile UX for something that should be a basic web utility.

So, I built miqr.mx to solve my own itch.

It’s a straightforward, lightweight tool for:

    Generating clean, ad-free QR codes.

    Creating short links.

    Building minimal "link-in-bio" pages.

My biggest annoyance was context-switching just to generate a code. To fix this, I focused on building Chrome and Firefox extensions. You simply right-click anywhere on a webpage, and it instantly generates the QR code for that URL without leaving the tab.

I would love to hear your feedback on the UX, the extensions, or if you've found any better workflows for this kind of daily utility.

Chrome Store https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ljoepbfdhbgnmaogglc...

Firefox Add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/miqr-free-qr-...

All this is cause someone at a local coffesshop was complaining about having to print new QR codes everytime they change the menu. Hope you find this tools useful

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