Isn’t Motorola the new msnufacturer for those GraphineOS phones? And now they do THIS???
Kinda makes them feel less trustworthy to install a security based rom on.
I said this in another comment, but the same app version being loaded on multiple phones and it doesn’t affect all of them, or side loading the app, or launching from a home screen all can bypass the issue, so it sounds more like malware than corporate fuckery.
It’s app level injection, so presumably if you install GrapheneOS or use a different “smart feed app” (some kind of launcher for Motorola? I haven’t used one before), it won’t affect the user. Although, I agree it’s a pretty bad look on the QA of preloaded apps.
Motorola is Lenovo, they are chinese. Of course they would try shenanigans like these to see if it sticks. Like I saw in my G23 with the Live Screen Locks shit, even we disabled it it would still change the screen lock wallpaper to a live one, had to remove the package from the user with adb.
the fact that they are chinese isn’t relevant here, since such fraudulent practices have been seen on Brave Browser too, for example.
Stock ROMs are removed immediately when obtaining a new phone
Not sure what happened, possibly some mim, i dont think Motorola would risk reputational damage for a merely few $ through such low level highjack.
I dont think it any ill will here by Motorola.
They won’t get away with that sort of sh*t when they’re selling with GrapheneOS on them- assuming that deal continues to make progress.
The only mobile OS worth using at this point is Graphene if you ask me.Good thing I don’t use Amazon.
I knew it was Joever when my phone came with something named “MotoAI”
Did they just not see the backlash and class actions filed against PayPal/Honey, CapitalOne, etc. for this same affiliate code swapping scheme and just decided they’d do it anyway? Surely they had to have seen that, or did they think it was a good idea done blatantly and are trying to be sneakier about it?
Ah yes one of the reasons why GrafeneOS will support Motorola devices soon /s
I would have to first have an Amazon app, or account.
Why should anyone install the amazon app? I mean… it’s a website (if one realy must…)
Even worse. The Amazon app is trash that sometimes doesn’t work at all, but the Amazon website works well on mobile.
I actually find the app is very nice compared to the mobile website on a pixel 9, of course I’m on GrapheneOS so I can enjoy apps from shitty companies without worrying too much about it doing shady things.
Although as of the past week, they’ve been injecting a shop with Alexa ad when you first open the app that slows you down by a few seconds, which is extremely infuriating.
I’m one of those shitty human beings who, unfortunately, orders fairly often from Amazon.
