Motorola's Smart Feed app hijacks Amazon launches to inject sketchy affiliate codes

A recent update to Motorola’s pre-installed Smart Feed app has been caught intercepting Amazon app launches from the app drawer, briefly redirecting through Chrome to inject an affiliate code before landing the user on Amazon. The behavior affects current devices including the $1,900 Razr Fold, was first flagged by a Razr 60 Ultra owner via ADB logs, and only triggers when launching Amazon from the app drawer — not from a homescreen shortcut. Network traffic points to devicenative.com, an ad-injection service that openly advertises its Motorola integration.

The affiliate code in use, sramz-kff-008-20, routes through kira-abboud.com, a domain loosely tied to a fashion influencer but not listed on any of her actual channels, and the code does not match the ones she promotes. 9to5Google could reproduce the redirect on an updated Razr Fold but not on a Moto G Stylus on the same app version, and sideloading the update did not trigger it — suggesting a server-side toggle rather than a clean rollout. Motorola has not yet responded.

Users can stop the redirect by disabling Smart Feed in Settings with no apparent side effects. Whether this is sanctioned monetization, a rogue partner abusing Motorola’s ad SDK, or a compromised supply-chain component is unclear, but it is a clear breach of user intent on devices people paid premium prices for.