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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by webvictim on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:19AM (#11836061)
The Facebook app on Android actually works fine without any special permissions. If you disable them all via the new methods in Marshmallow, it just continues trucking on. Of course they'll never stop asking for the extra permissions, but its functionality is pretty equivalent to the mobile site even with no intrusive permissions.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by Zak on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:22PM (#11838971)
The Facebook app is a memory hog though, and was causing UI lag in other apps on my phone. I have very little idea how it was doing that, but when I removed it, the lag stopped.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by VintageCool on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:28PM (#11839493)
I uninstalled the Facebook Messenger app about 3 months ago when I saw a news article about how it devoured battery on Android, because I was having battery life problems at the time.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by Zak on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:49AM (#11841527)
I just removed Messenger in favor of the Facebook Lite app, which can be found on APK mirror sites if Google Play doesn't offer it. There does seem to be a significant improvement in idle battery drain.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by e12e on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:36PM (#11837410)
Good to know. I've yet gotten around to trying this out (just recently upgraded to a Marshmellow phone), I feared it was install > grant permssions > optionally revoke permissions. And I wasn't ready to try that with an app that came out of fb, given their track record.

Maybe that's an idea for an open source Android demo app - one that requests a certain set of (or all possible) permissions, and then simply displays the status of those permissions (granted/blocked).

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