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Toastrr
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Jul 07, 2023
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Notification Message Quest Wifi Test Deep Link

I am receiving a notification message that reads, "Guest Wifi Test deep link".  Does anyone know what this means?
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    orbianon
    Jul 08, 2023

    https://status.netgear.com/orbi

     

    7th July 2023

     
    Multiple Push Notifications
    20 hours ago

    Earlier today, Orbi App users were sent multiple push notifications about guest WiFi. If you received one of these notifications, you can safely ignore it. The notifications were sent accidentally during an internal test. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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StefMcDuff
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Jul 07, 2023
A deep link is an application term. A deep link will (essentially) take you directly to an app instead of a webpage. Think of if you search "Facebook" on your android phone in Google how you can click the result and it takes you to the Facebook app.

Appears that they were testing a deep link to the guest wifi page in the application. Probably shouldn't have been testing in prod, but I think that the notifications are innocuous (and hey, they worked! Opened straight to the guest wifi page in the app.)
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Polyh3dron
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Jul 07, 2023

I'm also getting spammed with these notifications all of a sudden today while I'm offsite, and I don't even have an active guest network. My app isn't allowing me to log in either, giving me an error that doesn't say my credentials are incorrect, suggesting more of a failure on the server end of things for this app.