Facebook's Auto-Playing Videos Are Blamed For High Data Usage Charges
Found on Forbes on Sunday, 07 September 2014
Facebook enabled videos to automatically play by default, which has caused many people to incur high data usage charges.
“We’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,” reported MoneySavingExpert.com.
Not to mention that it is highly annoying when a website decides to just play audio/video. We're not living in a world without browser tabs, so users who open several links in the back will have to search through them all to find the annoying one to close. Luckily browsers usually have the option to disable plugins until you click on them, disabling Flash & Co, what makes the web a little nicer again.