A truly bizarre situation on Motorola phones has led to the software hijacking the Amazon app to inject an affiliate...
  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    A Motorola Razr 60 Ultra user on Reddit was the first to notice this behavior, using an ADB log to show that the launcher is directing users to a URL instead of the Amazon app they expected to open. It traces back to the Smart Feed app, one of the apps Motorola has pre-loaded on many of its phones including the latest Razr (2026) family of foldables. A network log also shows the device making requests to “devicenative.com,” a website for a service that places ads on smartphones (and isn’t too quiet about its integration with Motorola).

    So basically, it’s a Motorola developed app that comes stock with their phones. That’s wild. It also has to be illegal (since it’s Motorola injecting their own affiliate link when you buy one of their products on Amazon, which has to be some kind of fraud).

  • Mosfar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    The f?? The same Motorola that will ship phones with GrapheneOS? Didn’t they learn from the Honey situation?

      • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Honey is an browser extention that got promoted by tons of influencers/youtubers. It supposed to look up for discount codes, coupons and etc. that it can use on popular online shopping platforms.

        The situation was that in reality Honey was intentionally picky on what code to apply, and it would claim that it gave you a discount when in reality there was none.

        Edit: browser extention

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    The article speculates that this isn’t intentional by Motorola. I’ve also seen mentions speculating a compromised library

    Secondly, we can speculate as to what’s going on – and that’s what the following is, speculation and conjecture. While many would quickly, understandably, point the finger at Motorola here, my gut says something else is going on, and that it might not be a decision Motorola actually planned out. The redirect through a seemingly fake website and affiliate code of an influencer that has no obvious ties to Motorola is just too bizarre to ignore.