Following the discovery that Motorola phones were hijacking the Amazon app to inject affiliate data, Motorola has confirmed to 9to5Google that it has ended the behavior, which it says was “unintended.”
Earlier this week we reported on an update to Motorola’s Smart Feed app which had started hijacking the Amazon app to inject affiliate data. The bizarre situation would quickly inject the affiliate code, loosely tied to a random fashion influencer, if the user opened the Amazon app via the app drawer.
Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes [Video]
Motorola has now acknowledged the situation, also confirming that this was not an intentional change.
In a statement to 9to5Google, Motorola says this behavior was “unintended” and that it has been corrected.
