[wattt]

Surprised it has not been mentioned yet, but mbasic.facebook.com would solve the issue in both articles. I don't even have a facebook account and I'm constantly referring people to the slimmer version. I guess they must not advertise it.

[mnadkvlb]

Thanks. This is what i needed. FB on mobile browsers is usable again. They have intentionally crippled the mobile site if you want to chat, to have you install messenger, which is probably the worst app(/malware) i have seen.

[iokanuon]

There's something weird happenning here with that subdomain. I've just tried using that domain to access facebook on my android phone a couple of times, it was redirecting me to https://mobile.facebook.com/?_rdr every time.

Until I've decided to try it in the Chrome Incognito Mode. It worked correctly, without redirecting to the normal facebook's mobile site.

But after coming back from Incognito, it started working as intended on normal browsing mode too.

[ShinyCyril]

I noticed something similar when I was travelling in either Hong Kong or Thailand. The network operators in that country offered free access to Facebook and so when accessing mbasic... it would ask you if you wanted to use Facebook for free, and if not then it would forcefully redirect you to the regular Facebook interface - no option to use the lightweight one.

[mr_spothawk]

Thank you so much :) It's like old Facebook... and quite the reminder of how quickly our world changes.

[username223]

Thanks! mbasic.facebook.com loads fast, and better yet, doesn't seem to suffer from random filtering. I saw several useful things there that were inexplicably hidden on the normal site. I can only assume FB will break it soon...

[em3rgent0rdr]

there's also quite a few open-source apps on F-DROID which are merely wrappers around the mobile site. I've been using "FaceSlim" for a while.

[narrator]

You can also enable "show desktop site" on Chrome android to get messenger to work again.

[kevincox]

That looks nice. I wonder if there is a way to set it as the preferred mobile site (for incoming links). That being said the mobile site is quite good anyways, so it's not a big issue for me.

[weinzierl]

This approach doesn't work anymore (at least for me). I always get redirected to a page that prompts me to install Messenger.

[BillinghamJ]

mbasic is different from the normal Facebook mobile site. It doesn't even seem to have any JS as far as I can tell. More designed for WAP etc