Motorola confirmed it fixed affiliate code hijacking issue in Amazon app
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Matt Binder
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Summary
Motorola phones were found to be injecting affiliate codes into Amazon's app, hijacking commissions from purchases. The issue, discovered by a Reddit user, involved Motorola's "Moto App" or "Moto Care" service rewriting affiliate links in the Amazon Shopping app to insert Motorola's own referral codes. This meant Motorola was taking credit (and commissions) for purchases made through Amazon links. Motorola confirmed the issue and released a fix. The article compares this to the earlier Honey browser extension controversy where affiliate codes were similarly hijacked.
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· 3 pulledA few years ago, a massive affiliate code hijacking scheme rocked the internet. YouTubers and other influencers discovered that PayPal's money-saving Chrome extension, Honey, was sneakily inserting its own e-commerce affiliate codes — sometimes even replacing creators' affiliate codes — in order to take credit for the sale and profit.
Motorola confirmed it fixed the issue and provided a statement to Mashable.
Here's how to disable the function seemingly causing the issue, too.
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