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Lenovo and Motorola learned NOTHING from superfish: avoid their products


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@GrapheneOS team if you're reading this, I heard that you guys are partnering with Motorola to provide official support for their devices and even the possibility of buying phones with GrapheneOS pre-installed. I was overall pretty happy about this partnership and what it meant for the future of degoogled mobile OSes, however I'm concerned to see Motorola's involvement in this new affiliate link scandal and how shady it was and their overall response after this came out in public. I know this issue doesn't affect GrapheneOS users in particular, but I still wanted to run this by you and see if you guys have any comment on this.

Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. The text on the left reads "motorola becomes another honey?" with the picture of a honey jar below it, there is a big sticker on the jar showing the brand logo of Motorola and the Honey browser extension (which got caught app in an infamous affiliate link scandal). On the right side you can see Louis Rossmann wearing a black T-shirt and sunglass, talking and gesturing with his hand, with a microphone in front of him.
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Rokosun

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Just to be clear, this incident regarding Motorola has nothing to do with Rossmann so if you are put off by that video then I'll share the source link here - 9to5google.com/2026/05/25/moto…

I fail to see how covertly putting affiliate links like this can be an "unintended" mistake like Motorola claims. I was asking to see if the GrapheneOS team has any comment on this incident.

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It's unintended from Motorola's part since it wasn't authorized by them and was done without their permission. That doesn't mean whoever did it didn't intend to do it. It makes no sense for them to put referral codes into Amazon links with the codes tied to an obscure Instagram influencer. It clearly wasn't something authorized. They're having a company which might be problematic do contract work for them or are using their SDK and both seem to have screwed up missing this going in.
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