{"slug": "motorola-s-preinstalled-smart-feed-app-hijacks-apps-for-affiliate-revenue", "title": "Motorola's preinstalled \"Smart Feed\" app hijacks apps for affiliate revenue", "summary": "Motorola's preinstalled \"Smart Feed\" app has been found to hijack other applications on its devices to generate affiliate revenue for the company. The app redirects users' clicks and in-app actions through Motorola's own affiliate links without user consent, effectively siphoning commissions that would otherwise go to the original app developers. This practice raises significant privacy and ethical concerns, as it exploits user activity for undisclosed financial gain.", "body_md": "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.\n\nTry logging in or creating an account [here](https://www.reddit.com/login/) to get back to browsing.\n\nIf you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials [here](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/). Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string,\ntry changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.\n\nYou can read Reddit's Terms of Service [here](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/api/).\n\nIf you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss\neasier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket [here](https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=21879292693140).\n\nWhen contacting us, please include your Reddit account along with the following code:\n\n**019e68ef-c0c7-72b0-a3a3-1c42bb09239e**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motorola-s-preinstalled-smart-feed-app-hijacks-apps-for-affiliate-revenue", "canonical_source": "https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tno2z3/motorolas_preinstalled_smart_feed_app_hijacks/", "published_at": "2026-05-27 09:54:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 10:16:46.735175+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products"], "entities": ["Motorola", "Smart Feed"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motorola-s-preinstalled-smart-feed-app-hijacks-apps-for-affiliate-revenue", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motorola-s-preinstalled-smart-feed-app-hijacks-apps-for-affiliate-revenue.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motorola-s-preinstalled-smart-feed-app-hijacks-apps-for-affiliate-revenue.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motorola-s-preinstalled-smart-feed-app-hijacks-apps-for-affiliate-revenue.jsonld"}}