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mbasic.facebook.com

It's not a great looking site, but you can read and respond to messages on there.

there's also a Firefox extension that can unblock "messenger"...

You can also use mobile wrapper apps, such as Friendly for iOS[1] or Simple on Android[2].

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/friendly-for-facebook/id400169...

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

Or just get rid of it. Facebook is faux content.

you can view m.facebook.com in desktop mode to avoid the redirect to install messenger

> Facebook said that even when location tracking is turned off, it can deduce users’ general locations from context clues like locations they tag in photos as well as their devices’ IP addresses.

Facebook can still do all this on the mobile website.

messenger works fine for me with firefox 20.2 on iOS 13.2.3