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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by FreakyT on Saturday June 04, 2016 @06:59AM (#11835869)
Facebook blocks Messenger.com for mobile browser user agents; you need to spoof your UA if you want to use it on mobile. (Some of the Facebook app wrappers can do this for you.)
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by fwn on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:11AM (#11835896)
If you spoof the UA, you can also use the main Facebook website on mobile. Messenger.com might be less cluttered though.

Btw: that works with mobile Firefox. (I originally used it instead of chrome, mostly because it supports ad blocking on unrooted devices.)

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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by michel-slm on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:13AM (#11835903)
Interesting, Asana does that too. And I would rather not use their app...
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by tombh on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:10AM (#11835891)
Which ones? Tinfoil doesn't seem to at the moment.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by FreakyT on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:38PM (#11837418)
I believe "Metal" does on the Android side, not sure about iOS.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by stirner on Saturday June 04, 2016 @09:47AM (#11836300)
venmo.com does the same thing.
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