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I wonder how many people who have "deleted the app" do what my SO does and keep using it daily via their phone's web browser whilst still telling people "Yeah I've totally deleted Facebook from my phone".

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It's a step that reduces privacy invasion, makes use less convenient, and keeps you from getting alerts. A step in the right direction.

Your web browser is a lot less likely to grab your recent calls and GPS location.

When I deleted FB from my phone, it was a solid statement of "I will not use FB on my phone". I do still use Messenger, because it's primary contact mechanism anymore for so many people, but I don't read the feed on my phone, period.

You're still giving them location data and customer profile information. Probably something like: "white male, from $STATE, income bracket derived from home and work location, and probably flagged as "privacy conscious" because you never use the app. That profile is valuable to at least some advertisers.

Yes, but my reasons for getting off FB aren't privacy paranoia. I don't particularly care that they're tracking me.

I dialed back Facebook because it ate time better spent doing other things, and I like myself better when I'm not yelling at people who are wrong on the Internet so much.

Paranoia? Yeah, that's a completely unacceptable phrase considering what they're actually doing. Shame.

Or they moved to instragram. That'll really show zuckerburg what's what.

I only use the mobile browser version because the app is laggy and forces you to install their shitty dedicated messenger app just to read messages.

At least thats how it was 1,5yrs ago or so, haven't tried it since then again.

I was getting redirected to the messenger app from the mobile browser version, as well. They seemed to quit letting me used messenger in the browser.

mbasic.facebook.com still has messages.

Excellent. Thank you.

I can't even delete it from my android phone without rooting it

That's on your carrier+FB.

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