What you need to know
- Motorola was accused of slipping an affiliate link to users’ Amazon purchases when using software discovered on their latest 2026 unlocked devices.
- Another report says that the company will redirect users to a fake website link (and uses a bogus affiliate code) for a short period of time from a real fashion influencer that uses none.
- Motorola issued a statement to Android Central saying the issue was “unexpected” and that it was working “quickly” to resolve it.
Recently, there has been some suspicious activity from Motorola regarding interactions with your Amazon purchases.
This issue was reported for the first time Android subreddit By user with Razr Ultra 2026. According to their report, the pre-installed “Smart Feed” app is allegedly accessing shopping apps to “steal affiliate revenue”. TechRadar). In practice, a user reports that opening the Amazon app on their phone “will instead open a browser and send me to some thumbnail-looking url, which then redirects me to amazon.com with an affiliate code.”
It gets even weirder when the user discovers that their device is passing through network traffic and Motorola is constantly pinging “devicenative.com”. It is believed that Motorola relied on Device Native for this process. Going through an affiliate link will reward Moto with a portion of your Amazon purchase, even if you never interact with the company’s official or relevant affiliate link. Please note that this affiliate link is not verified was It offers Motorola a discount (which only makes it weirder).
A post 9 to 5 Google Your Amazon app went into more detail, specifying a redirect link that would appear in Chrome for a short time before sending users to a fake website. fashion influencer. The publication says that not only does the influencer not list this website on any of their pages, but they also don’t rank their affiliate code.
Android Central has reached out to Motorola about this issue. The company issued the following statement:
Motorola and Device Native have teamed up to develop an app search and suggestion experience for the Moto App Launcher, designed to help users quickly find and launch apps they already have installed on their devices. Motorola recently moved quickly to address an identified issue that caused some users in the US who launched the Amazon Shopping app to be redirected via a web tracking link before opening the app. This behavior was unexpected and resulted in an inconsistent user experience. After identifying the problem, we fixed the routing configuration immediately. Users can now expect all installed apps to launch directly as intended. Motorola takes user experience, privacy and platform integrity seriously and will continue to monitor the system closely to ensure expected behavior across devices. We are committed to responsible disclosure and transparent, collaborative relationships with researchers to quickly identify and resolve potential issues.
Motorola
This is an interesting issue
It’s interesting to say the least that this was a feature of the Smart Feed app and had never been caught before. Regardless, like our friends at TechRadar, we’re getting strong feedback on what Made Honey’s Chrome extension. You have seen Bal’s name everywhere. Nowadays? Not so much. The platform has been caught in some shady affiliate link deals. While shopping, he would quietly exchange affiliate links from influential creators and influencers with his code.
This will shift some of the purchase onto Honey instead of where it should go. Since then, Google has seriously cracked down on the shopping extensions available for Chrome. The company has tightened its rules and banned shopping extensions from adding their own affiliate links or messing with your shopping cookies.
Android Central’s Take
I think we’re all thinking the same thing now. Motorola’s answer to this is… timely. It was possible to quickly “fix” this problem that users were experiencing with the app and the Amazon app. The whole situation is strange though. Given how big of a mess it’s become, I’m not entirely sure there will be an end to it. This clashes terribly with online users and information like this raises more eyebrows.
