Motorola says affiliate hijacking of Amazon app was ‘unintended’

The 2026 Razr Ultra is 1 of the Motorola phones that exhibited the ‘unintended’ redirects. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

Motorola says that precocious discovered behavior, which saw immoderate of its phones sending users to an affiliate tracking website earlier opening the Amazon app, was "unintended" and has been "promptly corrected." The institution didn't explicate however the mistake was introduced successful the archetypal place.

"Recently, Motorola acted rapidly to resoluteness an contented that was identified, which caused immoderate users successful the US launching the Amazon Shopping app to be routed done a web tracking nexus earlier opening the app. This behaviour was unintended and resulted successful an inconsistent idiosyncratic experience," Allison Yi, Motorola's enforcement manager of merchandise management, told The Ver …

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