A truly strange situation on Motorola phones has led to software hijacking the Amazon app to inject an affiliate code, including on the $1,900 Razr Fold.
Unfortunately, shady use of affiliate codes has become common in recent years, with the majority being A notable example is PayPal’s proprietary browser extension, Honey.. But a new situation in Motorola smartphones could top the charts in terms of sketchy behavior.
An app update on Motorola phones began to hijack the Amazon app in order to inject an affiliate code. To do that, tapping the app icon opens the user’s browser and immediately redirects them to the Amazon app. It’s a “blink and you missed it” moment. This only happens when the user opens the Amazon app from the app drawer. No the home screen pages.
You can see the flow in action below: first by opening the app from a home screen icon and then from the app drawer. You will notice that the Chrome browser flashes briefly when it is opened from the app drawer.
A Motorola Razr 60 Ultra user on Reddit was the first to notice this behavior, using an ADB log to show that the launcher directs users to a URL instead of the Amazon app they expected to open. It goes back to the Smart Feed app, one of the apps that Motorola has preloaded on many of its phones, including the latest Razr family of foldable devices (2026). A network log also shows that the device makes requests to “devicenative.com”, a website for a service that places ads on smartphones (and is not silent about its integration with Motorola).
We verified on a Razr (2026) running an older Smart Feed v2.03.0056 that this No happen. Our Razr Fold, running app version 2.03.0070, has started exhibiting this behavior, so it’s the latest update that’s to blame for hijacking user intent. However, we were unable to replicate this on a Moto G Stylus (2026) running the same version of the app. Downloading the app, for reasons that are unclear, does not seem to trigger this behavior, as manually installing the updated version on the aforementioned Razr (2026) did not show the same behavior.
Investigating further, we notice that the URL the phone opens is “kira-abboud.com”, a website that references fashion influencers. “@kirasfashionfinds.” Notably, this exact URL does not appear anywhere on Abboud’s social media and the affiliate codes do not match either. The redirect coming from Motorola phones uses the Amazon affiliate code “sramz-kff-008-20,” which is completely different from any of the codes we saw in the links shared by Abboud accounts and linked websites.
Why would Motorola try to hijack Amazon affiliate revenue and funnel it through a fashion influencer? We don’t know, that’s all. very strange and makes little sense.
We’ve reached out to Motorola for comment and will update this article as soon as we hear more.
In the meantime, we can do two things.
First of all, we’ll show you how to turn this off. Since this behavior is caused by a pre-installed Motorola app, you can disable it (Settings > Apps > find “Smart Feed” > Disable). As far as we know, this has no immediate impact on your device and, on our affected Razr Fold, it immediately stops the redirection.
Secondly, we can speculate about what is happening – and that is what follows: speculation and conjecture. While many would be quick to, understandably, point the finger at Motorola, my gut tells me that something else is going on and it might not be a decision that Motorola actually planned. The redirection via an apparently fake website and affiliate code from an influencer who has no obvious ties to Motorola is too strange to ignore.
Hopefully, we’ll get more details from Motorola in the near future. In the meantime, you should definitely Please disable the Smart Feed app to prevent this behavior on your device.
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