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Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by kahnpro »

jaitsu wrote: post #3

They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don't want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can't provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that's fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open w…

> I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open web accessible to all, regardless of device.

I have some bad news for you...

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by StavrosK »

zem wrote: post #44
parthdesai wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me personally, it has gone away. I used to own Moto g ( 1 gb ram version) so there was no way i could afford to have messenger and facebook app installed on my phone. I budged and installed messenger when i bought nexus 6P though.

mbasic.facebook.com still has access to messages, if you want to uninstall messenger

Thank you for that. I had told everyone to message me on WhatsApp, and resigned to just be ignoring their messages until I was at a computer again. This will help.

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by jasonkostempski »

imgabe wrote: post #2

I'm pretty happy with my decision to keep Facebook apps off my phone. I'll check the mobile site once in a while to see the news feed, but that's it. Of course I have google backing everything up, so maybe that's not much better. Time to write a little script to routinely backup photos from there to my own hard drive.

I personally just clean out my phone onto my computer once every few months and keep it there if I feel the urge to look at it. Once in a while I'll zip up anything I think I haven't backuped up (with generous overlap) and send it over to AWS Glacier. I've got 123 GB of data there and it cost me $0.84 a month. It'll be a bit of a pain to recover if I ever loose my local copies but I don't expect that to happen frequently.

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by petecox »

Spooky23 wrote: post #8
vwcx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never installed Facebook Messenger and only access facebook through a mobile browser. What functionality am I missing out on?

A recent TechCrunch article reported that the functionality that you use is going away. It's a hamfisted move. They abuse these apps to do something -- my wife tried the messenger app and discovered a noticeable loss of battery life. I think she uninstalled it within 24 hours.

I tried the Facebook apps and they were slow, buggy and intrusive. Messaging from the mobile web page was fine...

Message to monetizing corporations - Sorry, all I want is a 4.5" web page downscaled from 21". It's all just CSS, right?

And this is why I signed up to the dream and bought a Mozilla device with Firefox OS; alas the hardware died around the time the OS was orphaned.

I use a handful of apps on my phone regularly and they're mainly for metropolitan services and web pages that refuse to reskin their sites for small screens. Nothing that couldn't be accomplished in HTML5 and with decent coding would probably run better than the current impls.

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by robogrowth »

jaitsu wrote: post #3

They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don't want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can't provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that's fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open w…

I gave up my Facebook 3 years ago and never looked back.

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by awqrre »

jaitsu wrote: post #3

They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don't want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can't provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that's fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open w…

Instead of removing the web messenger app, they should have made it harder to use then the mobile app... like many companies do.

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by Brandanna »

shopkins wrote: post #15
jaitsu wrote: post #3

They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don't want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can't provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that's fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open w…

> I wonder how long that will last until people start moving away from the platform. I think we'll need a solid alternative first. What would people want in the "next Facebook" anyway? Easy contact with every old classmate, friend, and family member? A place for their photos? An easy way to invite anyone to an event? I would wait for that day, but personally my use of FB has majorly changed over the past 10 years on…

I want the next Facebook to run on top of colony.io. Matrix would be a close second.

Re: Facebook threatens to delete synced photos if users don't download new photo app

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Post by rodgerd »

jaitsu wrote: post #3

They seem to go about these things in the wrong way. Take Messenger for example, there was no good reason to remove access to this via a browser on mobile devices. I don't want to have to install an app for something that was previously available in a browser. If you can't provide me with all of the features of messenger in the browser then that's fine. I thought we were meant to be progressing towards a truly open w…

> This is just another example of Facebook doing whatever they please just because they can.

Given their claimed user base, their dominance in social networking and social-networking-as-a-platform, and this sort of behaviour ("Use our new app OR WE'LL DELETE YOUR STUFF!") they seem ripe for anti-trust action.

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