This is creepy.

My social conspiracy mind makes me think it was an inside smear job and someone got paid to do it because of Motorola's deal with GrapheneOS.

There's surveillance "arms race" going on.

Authentic humans should be conducting a privacy "arms race" at all costs.

Life is starting to look like maybe it's a better just to leave it all behind. Fuck this place.

Being that Motorola Mobility is owned by Lenovo who had the Superfish adware scandal back in 2015, I'm not shocked. Lenovo has proven willing to tamper with their customers' web traffic on multiple occasions now. Avoid Lenovo/Motorola Mobility.

In the article there’s a link to an updated article, where it is revealed that this particular bit of code wasn’t done by Motorola but a third-party company. And that the affiliate link wasn’t Motorola but some random fashion influencer, I’m wondering if something was done under the table here without Motorola’s knowledge.

Motorola Mobility is wholly owned by Lenovo, and by Motorola Mobility I mean the name. That is all they purchased. No engineers, no IP, nothing but the name.

Lenovo, Motorola hasn't made phones for 12 years.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but I'm happy to see this.

TLDR: the article implies it might not be Motorola planning this, since it's laundering a redirect through a fashion influencer's site. The redirect only happens on certain update versions of Motorola's included Smart Feed app on certain phones, and not all of them.