Being that Motorola Mobility is owned by Lenovo who had the Superfish adware scandal back in 2015, I’m not shocked. Lenovo has proven willing to tamper with their customers’ web traffic on multiple occasions now. Avoid Lenovo/Motorola Mobility.
Ironic that the only phone that will support Graphene OS will be a Motorola.
You know, if that materializes, and if it’s available outside of business customers.
When and what will be lost from the graphene cable phones that you won’t see on other phones like I don’t know maybe never include 3.5 mm ports for SD cards or maybe the wind doing an apple thing and do only wireless charging…
In the article there’s a link to an updated article, where it is revealed that this particular bit of code wasn’t done by Motorola but a third-party company. And that the affiliate link wasn’t Motorola but some random fashion influencer, I’m wondering if something was done under the table here without Motorola’s knowledge.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but I’m happy to see this.
Corporatespeak translation of Motorola’s response: “It was unintended that we be caught.”
Motorola Mobility is wholly owned by Lenovo, and by Motorola Mobility I mean the name. That is all they purchased. No engineers, no IP, nothing but the name.
Lenovo, Motorola hasn’t made phones for 12 years.
