Perhaps you didn’t even mean to check out Maddie’s Amazing 3rd Birthday Party!!! footage on Facebook, maybe you were just scrolling along on your phone and stopped to read a post below that one. Nevertheless, if you haven’t turned the video autoplay feature off on your mobile devices, that sucker will start playing and could eat into your data allotment big time, as many users are finding out the rough way.
Facebook phone users have been reporting bill shock after one too many videos has gone and played itself, says consumer finance site MoneySavingExpert.com, saying they’ve “seen many complaints from people who have been stung with data bills after exceeding their monthly allowance and who believe it to be because of Facebook autoplaying videos.”
Facebook Mobile Users: Beware The Autoplay Videos Eating Up Your Data Plan – Consumerist
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