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I highly recommend deleting the fb app from your device to prevent it listening on you, tracking location, draining your battery and bombarding you with notifications.

If you must use messenger in mobile,

https://mbasic.facebook.com/

works

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They also say, in the mobile web version, that there are Stories, that can only be viewed in the app. Nope, desktop mode is enough (of course).

One can also request the FB site be reloaded as the desktop version - less painful than mbasic.

Does https://touch.facebook.com/ still work ? Last time I checked, it was a halfway house between mbasic and the desktop version.

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