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.
Seconded, though the sooner I’m able to get GrapheneOS on another phone, the better, as Google’s quality plunge after the Pixel 5 series was just inexcusable.
Edit: Actually, pretty much almost every Pixel phone has had some major hardware defect, including the ones before the 6 series.
The question is if the next gos phone will have a competitive camera quality in order to be a viable alternative for more people than only “high targets”
Thirded! Switched a few weeks back. Feels good to be able to fight in whatever little way that I can. Though one of my bank apps stopped working so that’s kind of a pain in the ass.
How awful was moving your data? I’ve been wanting to switch, but my big hesitation is all my 2fa apps cuz I really don’t want to have to reach out to all my clients to redo those…
I just moved from a Fold 4 (hinge broke or something, when I opened it the screens would go blank and only recover on a hard reboot) so I got a Pixel 10 Pro, flashed graphene and spent most of yesterday reinstalling apps more intentionally.
Authy refused to run, which is fine as I’ve been too lazy to swap from it even though I’ve been pissed since they got rid of the desktop app. Anyway I went through the 9 sites I had setup there and swapped it over to my vaultwarden.
Other apps that didn’t install were EBay and Coinbase, both I can live with using the mobile browser instead (don’t use them all that frequently anyway).
I can’t speak for the pro series. I had as Pixel 1 that was very good.
But then for cost and headphone jack reasons I switched to the a series when my Pixel 1 died. Both I and friends and family have had various Pixel ‘a’ series phones, and we’ve all seen the quality get progressively worse. Batteries, gyros, cameras, screens, you name it. I wouldn’t recommend that specific line of phones.
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.
Ive got a Pixel 8 Pro with GOS and I love it
Seconded, though the sooner I’m able to get GrapheneOS on another phone, the better, as Google’s quality plunge after the Pixel 5 series was just inexcusable.
Edit: Actually, pretty much almost every Pixel phone has had some major hardware defect, including the ones before the 6 series.
The question is if the next gos phone will have a competitive camera quality in order to be a viable alternative for more people than only “high targets”
I’ve got a Pixel 9 and at the first opportunity this piece of shit is being skipped into the river like a flat stone.
Thirded! Switched a few weeks back. Feels good to be able to fight in whatever little way that I can. Though one of my bank apps stopped working so that’s kind of a pain in the ass.
How awful was moving your data? I’ve been wanting to switch, but my big hesitation is all my 2fa apps cuz I really don’t want to have to reach out to all my clients to redo those…
I just moved from a Fold 4 (hinge broke or something, when I opened it the screens would go blank and only recover on a hard reboot) so I got a Pixel 10 Pro, flashed graphene and spent most of yesterday reinstalling apps more intentionally.
Authy refused to run, which is fine as I’ve been too lazy to swap from it even though I’ve been pissed since they got rid of the desktop app. Anyway I went through the 9 sites I had setup there and swapped it over to my vaultwarden.
Other apps that didn’t install were EBay and Coinbase, both I can live with using the mobile browser instead (don’t use them all that frequently anyway).
Thanks for the heads up on authy, I’ll keep that in mind for when I swap!
Wait, why can’t you just export and import the TOTP data? You shouldn’t need to notify any of the providers…
I thought it didn’t let me, but this may just be PEBKAC…
Weird, which app are you using, and why is it not Aegis? lol jk (kinda… not really).
I can’t speak for the pro series. I had as Pixel 1 that was very good.
But then for cost and headphone jack reasons I switched to the a series when my Pixel 1 died. Both I and friends and family have had various Pixel ‘a’ series phones, and we’ve all seen the quality get progressively worse. Batteries, gyros, cameras, screens, you name it. I wouldn’t recommend that specific line of phones.
I would still shoot for that with graphene OS over other options without. I had a Pixel 6 with.no issues.