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WITH OUR FACEBOOK feeds filled to the brim with videos of friends (and friends of friends) doing the ice-bucket challenge, you may have noticed something a little different with them.
For most videos, they play automatically when you view them in the feed. That’s because Facebook auto-plays videos that are uploaded onto the site instead of elsewhere like YouTube.
While the reason for so many of these videos appearing is down to a very worthy cause, viewing numerous auto-play videos will mean you’re using more data on your phone and in the worst case scenario, this could lead to a significant bill.
To prevent that from happening, here’s how you can switch them off entirely, or only allow them to play when you have a WiFi connection.
(Note: you have to switch off videos in desktop and the iOS/Android app separately)
Android
You will have to go into the Facebook app itself to switch it off. Go into the menu and look for ‘App settings.’ When you select it, you will see an option for auto-play where you can select an option.
iPhone
Instead of going into the Facebook app, you will need to go into settings instead. Scroll down to find Facebook and tap on settings. There you will see Auto-Play where you can choose an option.
Windows Phone
Since the Facebook app is made by Microsoft and not Facebook, auto-play videos aren’t supported on it. Therefore, there’s no option to change them on Windows Phone.
Desktop
The easiest one to switch off. Either click on this link, or go into settings and select the video tab on the left.
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No sign of Shane Ross
@Roy O’Rourke: headline needs fixing.
@Roy O’Rourke: smell of him though
“almost definitely could be potentially the whale that might have been in either Dublin or Liverpool port, while also feeding potentially most definitely feeding on fish, just before it was more than likely certainly murdered by climate change or potentially other causes, that maybe but definitely one of a long list of ways it could have died” classic garbish titles…
@Cryptoalcho: Definately, maybe…
@GerryCummins: .
@GerryCummins: Perhaps
RIP whale
This the same wale who swam down the liffey to meet his mates in dolphins barn
@John O’Neill: Ah here
@Donal Connell: leave it out
More often than not when you find a mammal out of its comfort zone the mammal is in trouble.
Anybody find my bicycle whale on Dollyier?
He must have been sick. Poor thing.
More often than not when you find a mammal out of its comfort zone the mammal is in trouble.
In terms of whales.
A solo whale found out of its normal surroundings usually means that it is in trouble.
Either lost from its pod or lost on its own.
The next time you see any mammal in a position that you don’t expect it to be in presume it is in trouble big trouble.
@Linus Robin: Eamonn Ryan in Dáil Éireann, for example.
@Linus Robin: you ok?
@SFNutters: I’m fine thank you.
I realize that some of my post makes little or no sense.
I will blame that on 3 people calling to my house mid post and not proof reading.
Soz.
Almost definitely?
if not attended to quickly dead beached whales have been known to explode due to the build up of gasses if the whale is not gutted quickly .If your worrying about the smell now better cover your noses.
I’d say it died because of the big gapping hole in the end of it.
@Mumpsimus: that never killed your mother?
Liffey river just doesn’t sound right
I’d say that the untreated stuff coming out of ringsend nonwater treatment plant go him A national protest in needed save the whale campaign we can water we want save whales when do we want it Now.
Towed out to sea and told to stay there but not where it could be a hazard to marine navigation. What kind of morons do this?
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