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Motorola is at the centre of another controversy after users alleged that the smartphone maker was quietly hijacking the Amazon app to redirect users via affiliate links without their knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A user on Reddit first highlighted the issue after noticing that opening Amazon on their Motorola Razr 60 Ultra<\/a> briefly opened a browser window leading to a \u201csketchy looking\u201d URL before redirecting back to Amazon. The user noted that the issue seemed to stem from a hidden system app called Smart Feed, which appeared to intercept attempts to open Amazon on Motorola phones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI noticed something weird happening lately on my Razr 60 Ultra: when I tried to open the Amazon app, it would instead open the browser and send me to some sketchy looking url, which then redirects to amazon.com with an affiliate code,\u201d the user wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI expect this sort of scummy behavior from some third-rate Chinese company selling phones for $100, not from a brand like Motorola<\/a> and certainly not on a phone that retails for $1300!!\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While we don\u2019t have a Motorola device handy, a report by 9to5Google was able to replicate the issue on its own Razr Fold unit. The publication noted that the redirect using the Smart Feed app only happens when users open Amazon from the app drawer and not from a homescreen shortcut, making the behaviour harder to notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n