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And we shouldn’t be surprised if that number is downgraded in a month or two’s time. That’s what’s been happening fairly often recently. The final number will likely end up being < 40,000.

I see they let AI at their codebase.

From reading the article, the conclusion right now is that this isn’t a conscious act by Motorola.

My guess is they used an open source library in their Smart Feed app that has been poisoned with an affiliate link injection. Either that or someone working at Motorola slipped the code in and their quality control process missed it.

Neither one of those is a good look for Motorola. But it probably isn’t as bad as the headline makes it sounds.

On a side note, I ditched the increasingly shoddy Pixel a series for a mid-level Motorola phone a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back.

Good news good Signal.