Unfortunately I can't get it through google play (not available in the UK) so I have to manually download and keep the apk updated. I wish they'd enable it for all countries.
The separate messenger app is also going that way, hopefully they'll eventually create a Messenger Lite app too.
Tinfoil is great. It's basically just a wrapper app for the mobile site but it basically allows much greater control over what data you want FB to have access to.
In my case, nothing.
None of those pesky permissions like snooping through my contacts
That may depend on what brand phone you have though, but my Lenovo and my Huawai used to be able to do it.
Combine that with something like Greenify that will stop the app from doing stuff in the background and killing your battery, and it's actually a better experience than the mobile website. It's just insane on how much you must tame the application to be acceptable to use. Wish Facebook engineers would take note of how bloated and overreaching their app is by default.
For some reason every bank on the planet needs to know my location, send/receive text messages on my behalf and listen to my microphone in order to display a damned account balance.
Because being logged in with FB in the browser tracks what sites you visit (or at least it did).
Just install "Trillian"; it does Facebook messaging, plus a bunch of other networks, and is fast and low-resource.