Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is creepy.

  My social conspiracy mind makes me think it was an inside smear job and someone got paid to do it because of Motorola’s deal with GrapheneOS.

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• officermike@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Being that Motorola Mobility is owned by Lenovo who had the Superfish adware scandal back in 2015, I’m not shocked. Lenovo has proven willing to tamper with their customers’ web traffic on multiple occasions now. Avoid Lenovo/Motorola Mobility.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ironic that the only phone that will support Graphene OS will be a Motorola.

    You know, if that materializes, and if it’s available outside of business customers.

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    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When and what will be lost from the graphene cable phones that you won’t see on other phones like I don’t know maybe never include 3.5 mm ports for SD cards or maybe the wind doing an apple thing and do only wireless charging…

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the article there’s a link to an updated article, where it is revealed that this particular bit of code wasn’t done by Motorola but a third-party company. And that the affiliate link wasn’t Motorola but some random fashion influencer, I’m wondering if something was done under the table here without Motorola’s knowledge.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but I’m happy to see this.

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  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why?

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Motorola Mobility is wholly owned by Lenovo, and by Motorola Mobility I mean the name. That is all they purchased. No engineers, no IP, nothing but the name.

  Lenovo, Motorola hasn’t made phones for 12 years.

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