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Title: How to stop auto-play videos on Facebook and Twitter Post by: HCK on August 27, 2015, 09:00:11 pm How to stop auto-play videos on Facebook and Twitter
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Your social media feed is under assault by moving pictures.</p><p>In recent months, both Facebook and Twitter have enabled auto-play videos; whenever a video enters your feed or timeline, it automatically starts playing. At best, it’s an annoyance that chews through your data cap. At worst, the “feature” forces you to see videos of things you’d normally shy away from—a nastiness highlighted this morning after somebody murdered a pair of journalists on-camera in Virginia, then posted videos of the action to his social feeds (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/twitter-yanks-murder-video-posted-by-apparent-killer-of-va-journalists/), which were then re-shared widely.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2976306/software-social/how-to-stop-auto-play-videos-on-facebook-and-twitter.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How to stop auto-play videos on Facebook and Twitter (http://www.macworld.com/article/2976306/software-social/how-to-stop-auto-play-videos-on-facebook-and-twitter.html#tk.rss_all) |