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by utunga 1407 days ago
I'm with you also. But it is getting harder and harder. I'm convinced that Facebook are actively downgrading their in-browser mobile experience for this reason. They want to force you to use their app. Reddit, at least, are more honest about it - but also very annoying.

Features that used to work just fine (tagging people, editing comments) are becoming worse.

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Facebook in a mobile browser also actively lies to you about Messenger notifications. It displays an icon saying that you have messages, but redirects you to install the Messenger app instead of displaying them. There aren't actually any messages present, so the entire thing is just a scam to get access to your phone.
It has gotten so bad that I now wait to I'm on my laptop before I post to Facebook.

I did try the app again recently and it was bad in other ways (eg not using my phone's photo picker. As the photo I wanted was on a cloud service I couldn't select it from the app)