Facebook is an attack on the open web

Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by sirfz on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:12PM (#14464792)

I never installed Messenger mainly because I was satisfied with using Facebook app's messaging feature. When it was disabled in the app, I moved to using Facebook in the browser (uninstalled the app). They later removed messaging support in the browser as well so now I request "Desktop mode" when I want to read/write a message. What started as "I don't want to install another app I don't need" became "I will uninstall all apps by Facebook" and now I'm happy I never receive FB-related notifications, I only browse it when I feel like it :)

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by semi-extrinsic on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:00PM (#14465274)

Protip: try mbasic.facebook.com for messaging, or the "Toffeed" app on Android which is just a thin wrapper around this.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by sirfz on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:52PM (#14465662)

That's very helpful, thanks!

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by Jaruzel on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:47AM (#14468218)

There's also https://touch.facebook.com for the not-quite-as-light-as-mbasic version.

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Re:Facebook is an attack on the open web by sirfz on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:15AM (#14470487)

wow used to use this one before having the app back in the day, good to know it still exists and a perfect alternative for m.facebook.com with messenger support.

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