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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by jauer on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:01AM (#11835150)
"It turned out other Android services including Android system and Android OS showed reduced battery consumption when the Facebook app was uninstalled. Those services act as a buffer for many apps to the outside world when running in the background. So while Facebook didn’t look like it was using that much power, it was actually just being displayed elsewhere in Android’s statistics." From: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/uninstall...
Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by yomly on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:51AM (#11836149)
The final straw that pushed me to delete the app - thanks! Had already been living 95% free of Facebook by turning off push notifications anyway