Motorola phones steal your Amazon app (Video)

A really weird situation on Motorola phones has led to software hijacking the Amazon app to inject a shared code, even on the $1,900 Razr Fold.

Shady use of affiliate codes has unfortunately become more common in recent years a high-profile example is the PayPal-owned Honey browser extension. But a new case in Motorola smartphones may top the charts in terms of sketchy behaviors.

An app update on Motorola phones started hijacking the Amazon app to enter the affiliate code. To do this, tapping on the app icon opens the user’s browser and immediately redirects to the Amazon app. It’s a “blink and you missed it” moment. This only happens when the user opens the Amazon app from the app drawer – no home screen pages.

You can see the following action – first open the app from the home screen icon, then from the app drawer. You will see the Chrome browser flash briefly when opening it from the app drawer.

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Motorola Razr 60 Ultra user on Reddit was the first to notice this behavior, using an ADB log to show that the launcher was directing users to a URL instead of the Amazon app they were expecting to open. This goes back to the Smart Feed app, which is one of the apps that Motorola pre-loaded on many of its phones, including the latest Razr (2026) family of foldables. The network log also shows that the device sent a request to “devicenative.com”, a website for a service that serves ads to smartphones (and is not very calm about its integration with Motorola).

On a Razr (2026) running the old Smart Feed v2.03.0056, we confirmed that this doesn’t is happening. With firmware version 2.03.0070, the Razr Fold started showing this behavior, so it’s the latest update that’s guilty of stealing user intent. We were unable to replicate this on the Moto G Stylus (2026) running the same software version. For reasons that are not clear, sideloading the app does not cause this behavior, as manual installation of the updated version on the aforementioned Razr (2026) does not show the same behavior.

Upon further investigation, we found that the URL the phone opened was “kira-abboud.com,” a website referring to a fashion influencer. “@kirasfashionfinds.” Note that this exact URL is not listed anywhere on Abboud’s social media, and the affiliate codes don’t match either. The redirect from the Motorola phones uses the Amazon affiliate code “sramz-kff-008-20”, which is completely different from any code we’ve seen on links shared by Abboud accounts and related websites.

Why would Motorola try to steal Amazon affiliate revenue and channel it through a fashion influencer? We don’t know – that’s all a lot strange and makes little sense.

We’ve reached out to Motorola for comment and will update this article as soon as we hear more.

In the meantime, we can do two things.

First show how to turn it off. Since this behavior is caused by pre-installed Motorola software, you can simply disable it (Settings > Apps > search for “Smart Broadcast” > Disable). As far as we can tell, this does not immediately affect your device and stops redirecting to the affected Razr Fold immediately.

Second, we can speculate what happened – and that’s speculation and conjecture. While many here are quick to, understandably, point the finger at Motorola, my gut is to say that something else is going on and that this wasn’t really a decision that Motorola had planned. Redirecting via a fake website and affiliate code from an influencer with no apparent connection to Motorola is just too weird to ignore.

We hope to hear more from Motorola in the near future. Meanwhile, you should definitely disable the Smart Feed app to prevent this behavior on your device.