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There's https://www.facebook.com/lite/ and https://touch.facebook.com/ too. But I guess that wont allow them to mine their users for phones for contacts and other interesting data.

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The web version won't be as compact, because it has to use HTML/CSS/JS and so can't shift as much rendering burden onto the server. It also has to use HTTP, which is less efficient over the network.

Did you RTFA? https://www.facebook.com/lite/ is what this article is about...

Yes, but this got a bit messy to me. Facebook Lite used to be was a regular (but light) web page[1]. Now they seem to have converted the Lite web page brand into an app. An app that requires access to your contacts[2], among other things.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130624002458/https://www.lite....

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l...

There is still https://mbasic.facebook.com/ so it has just been renamed.

Not just renamed. It used to look like this, a decent desktop UI: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/2ni4mjt...

That's the version you get when you go to Facebook in Opera Mini. (Which I've done recently from a Windows Mobile 6 device)

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