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pcernie

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Facebook tests auto-play videos in news feeds

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... ms-1180756

Will that chew bandwidth? Can't imagine them being popular either way.

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Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:33 am

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Re: Facebook tests auto-play videos in news feeds

It will make those on dial up or on capped broadband angry.

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Re: Facebook tests auto-play videos in news feeds

Facebook is slow enough offshore as it is, this would make it grind to a halt.

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Re: Facebook tests auto-play videos in news feeds

In the early days of GeoCities etc it was common for websites to have auto-playing music files, often midi, using the HTML background sound command.

Most browsers no longer support this because it was f!cking annoying!

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