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Facebook forces user to use messenger on mobile site
WTF is wrong with the world. I don't want to install Facebook app and I don't want to install their messenger.
I just want to use it in my browser. I know it's 100% possible because it used to work.
Is that too much to ask for?
- sebastian-heinz 10y agoyou can switch to 'desktop view' in most android browsers, allowing you to use the fb web messenger. i know its super annoying but the only way around tho.
- Mayzie 10y agoThat's what I have to do. Super annoying indeed.
- jazoom 10y agoIt has been like this for me for months. I just stopped using it except at a Desktop.
- plouc 10y agoIt's not the answer you are looking for but you can install Slimsocial for Facebook - where it works.
- mariodiana 10y agoIt would be interesting to know why this seems, from Facebook's point of view, too much to ask for. Are they collecting data directly from the phone that they otherwise wouldn't be able to? Is there some other kind of integration with payment services that they're planning? I know that I've been getting a lot of "So-and-so has invited you to Facebook Messenger." I installed Messenger the other day on my iPhone. It asked me for all my contacts, and I deleted it then, straight away. It looks like you install it, grant it permission, and then it spams everyone you know. That's not cool.
- enigmango 10y agoMessenger view on mobile has unexpectedly started working for me over the past week or so. No changes that I'm aware of, I'm not in desktop mode, and it was definitely redirecting to the app store before. Has anyone else noticed this too? Any speculation on what might've changed?