German article:
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?seite=all<p>Translated by Google (hopefully without distortions):
https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?seite=all&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Looks like a honest bug, where strings extracted from QR codes get sent through a typo correction step.<p>For example, <a href="https://www.fooco.at/hello" rel="nofollow">https://www.fooco.at/hello</a> becomes <a href="https://www.foo.co.at/hello" rel="nofollow">https://www.foo.co.at/hello</a> and <a href="https://referendum.cat" rel="nofollow">https://referendum.cat</a> becomes <a href="https://referendum.ca" rel="nofollow">https://referendum.ca</a>.<p>(whether it’s good idea to make such corrections when theuser types such URLs is a different issue)