[distribot]

I don’t see how that is related since nowadays most people use Facebook products from mobile apps. They’d still be hosed right now.

[swiley]

You used to be able to use Facebook on mobile OSes without the apps. Many people did this (because the apps don't really add anything anyway and take up a ton of space) but Facebook put themselves at the complete mercy of these mobile OS vendors by killing that off.

[asciimov]

I still use Facebook on iOS only through the browser. Have a little shortcut in my Home Screen and it takes me straight there.

[browningstreet]

People visit sites outside of apps and those sites feed back data to Facebook for targeting purposes. On desktop, people use FB in browsers, too.