No good deed goes unpunished in #NewIndia
Absolutely believable that someone extorting 20-25k a month from multiple businesses was slaving as a delivery executive to earn another 25k.
Must have ran out of businesses to extort.
Award-winning engineering on display in Domlur.
A light pole already obstructed the road, so the solution was to cement the road and install a divider around it, making the passage even narrower for vehicles. Only in Bengaluru can a road improvement make a road less usable.
Students are questioning CBSE's OSM evaluation. Now messages are circulating asking schools and teachers not to amplify re-evaluation posts.
The easiest way to solve a problem is to fix it.
The second easiest is to stop people from talking about it.
In Jan, Musk received a pay package w/ 1.3 billion restricted shares. To earn them, Musk had to create a Mars colony w/ 1 million people + other goals.
BUT (!) Musk can already vote those shares. They contribute to his 85% voting dominance at SpaceX ahead of its IPO.
🦔Motorola's preinstalled Smart Feed app on Razr Ultra and Razr Fold phones secretly hijacks Amazon app launches to inject affiliate codes into your purchases. The behavior showed up in version 2.03.0070, released in the latest software update. Network logs traced the redirect through https://t.co/L9hNKe4aKa (a mobile ad service whose Motorola integration page got quietly deleted this week) and then through a domain tied to a fashion influencer whose public affiliate codes do not match the ones being injected.
The Razr Ultra retails for $1,300, the Razr Fold for $1,900. Motorola has not commented. Users can disable Smart Feed under Settings, Apps, Smart Feed, Disable.
My Take
Somebody on the Motorola side decided affiliate revenue from your Amazon purchases should fund the bottom line on a $1,900 phone. The behavior closely tracks the Honey scandal from 2024, where PayPal's browser extension was caught stripping other people's affiliate codes off Amazon purchases and replacing them with its own to skim commission. The difference here is that Motorola built the skimming directly into the operating system layer, not a browser extension you chose to install.
https://t.co/Dd0IfTiCR9 had a public documentation page describing its Motorola integration, and that page now returns a 404 error after the Reddit thread went viral. A legitimate business partner does not scrub its own documentation hours after a story breaks. Whoever built this knew it would not survive scrutiny. Phone manufacturers want recurring revenue beyond the one-time hardware sale, and monetizing the traffic the user already generates is the easiest path to get there. Anyone running a Motorola phone should disable Smart Feed today, and anyone shopping for a new phone should price in the trust premium Apple and Pixel still command for not pulling stunts like this.
Hedgie🤗