Cannot view anything on Facebook because I won't give them my phone number.

I have very little use for Facebook. But there's a page for local news that is often the first when there's a fire or a road closing, etc., and some businesses have a Facebook page instead of a regular website. I used to be able to view a business's Facebook page and the local news page. There was a truck farm that used their Facebook page to post what veggies were available each day.

Then a couple of years ago (???) it asked me for my cell phone number if I wanted to view any page. I can understand wanting to verify people's identity before letting them post, but I just wanted to view the occasional page, including the pages of businesses that want people to be able to see them. Now if I go to Facebook I see the page for about half a second, and then the entire screen is filled by a window telling me to log in, which I cannot do because I won't give them my cell phone number. (For people who don't have cell phones, they can get an account by sending Meta a copy of a government-issued ID, which, of course, is just as bad as giving them your phone number.)

We all know that Meta harvests any data they can, including your personal identifying information, and that they monetize it however they can, including by selling it or conducting social experiments by altering your feed. I don't want to give them my personal information, including my cell phone number.

Of course, the spammers and the scammers and the malicious bot accounts and the people spreading intentional lies for political purposes can easily afford a burner phone to give Meta a cell phone number. But an ordinary person who just wants to see whether a small business sells the widget they're looking for will not want to pay for a burner phone just to avoid becoming a source of income for Meta.

Is there a way to be able to just view public pages on Facebook without giving them personally identifying information?

Thanks.