“Want to save money on your phone bill? Make sure you turn off the “autoplay” setting on Facebook videos.
Smartphone users are at risk of maxing out their data plans if they don’t change this default setting in the Facebook app, which otherwise will automatically start streaming videos in the News Feed window.”
Read more here: http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/03/technology/social/facebook-auto-play/
Ana Kasparian (http://fb.com/AnaKasparianOfficial) and Cenk Uygur (http://www.fb.com/CenkUygurOfficial) of The Young Turks (http://www.fb.com/TheYoungTurks) discuss. Ana shows iOS and Android users how to change your settings to make sure the autoplay videos don’t eat up your data.
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No, they don’t auto play, but we still can’t full screen the videos unless we leave your website, and go to Youtube. Super annoying.