Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger

Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by r3bl on Saturday June 04, 2016 @06:07AM (#11835740)

Your GPS location (if you have it turned on), your SMS messages, your call logs, your phone's storage, your camera, your mic... Just read the permissions: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.o...

I've never had a Facebook app on any of my phones and I will never install one.

Worth pointing out: Luckily, my phone came without Facebook apps preinstalled, so I had the choice of seeing what Facebook wants to access. Other people don't even have that chance since it comes preinstalled in most of the cases.

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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by maccard on Saturday June 04, 2016 @06:09AM (#11835744)

But they have that data through their regular Facebook app (I wonder if that's next).

Also I'm on iOS so I can deny access to Gps/location/camera/mic and there's no way to access my message history.

Thanks for the reply though!

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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by Karlozkiller on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:22AM (#11836072)

That's exactly why many don't run the official Facebook either. There are third party apps using the web-interface meant to sandbox Facebook so they can't gather all information. Up until now those web-interfaces have also been able to use the chat though. And you can still do that with some quick apps made to work around this block by facebook.

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