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- tatestExplorer III'm finding that almost all news links now go to video, and many want to play a commercial video first. Seems that they think nobody kniws how to read, we need talking heads to read us the news.
More people are embedding videos in their facebook posts, but the FB apps can be configured not to play videos. - Monty-RobExplorerTurned off auto play in Facebook
My wife had an overage charge from Verizon
Our phone plan is 2gb data for each phone...not shared
Thank you for suggestions....Rob - MrWizardModeratorare you sure that data useage was on the BILL
i would expect that kind of listing on the phone, i have verizon
i still get the paper statement in the mail every month
i have not looked online to see if my data useage is broken down by type of data
as stated above, its possible everything "flash" based "file.flv" is showing as video, and would be mainly adv, but could also be any gaming, done online
aka Farmville etc... - gerrym51Explorer III dont have an iphone. However when traveling i have every device we have set for no updates until told. also no autoplay until told.
thats all the advice i have - mich800ExplorerI need to look at my bill now. I don't remember it stating my data breakdown by source.
- x96mnnExplorer
global2 wrote:
choochooman74 may be right. Whenever I have usage complaints, Facebook is the first place I check. FB defaults to autoplay of videos in your news feed. You have to go to settings and disable that. Many vendors not only populate your news feed with unwanted ads, they also love using video.
Plus 2 or should say 3 on this. I had never ad the facebook app on my phone until recently and by data usage went through the roof. It was all facebook. The other program that's just as bad if not worse, Pinterest. - global2Explorerchoochooman74 may be right. Whenever I have usage complaints, Facebook is the first place I check. FB defaults to autoplay of videos in your news feed. You have to go to settings and disable that. Many vendors not only populate your news feed with unwanted ads, they also love using video.
- amandasgrammaExplorerI have no answer for you here....the above answers seem legit. I WILL say this....if you're sharing (like we are) watch what the other person is doing. ROL. My DH (grrrr) did an upgrade on the GPS......1 1/2 hrs later, I picked up the Jetpack to turn it on, saw it on.....and about screamed!!!! It ate up 5 GB of memory in that 1 1/2 hrs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, he's in the doghouse. oh, that was 2 days after we bought it...............
- 1775ExplorerIf your phone browsers are displaying "desktop" webpages rather than "mobile" webpages you are streaming video data with every ad in motion and flash display. If you are connecting your phone to a laptop you are streaming even more and not realizing it.
Bottom line is does it matter? Are you being charged extra for this or are you using up high speed bandwidth to a level that you will be throttled by Verizon to a slow internet speed on the phones? If not, it should not really matter if you use x% of data on video. - Gene_GinnyExplorerI see more and more website pages with embedded video, particularly news sites. I constantly see black boxes with text saying "you need to upgrade flash to properly experience this website". I have active-x and flash disabled intentionally. I would not be surprised if 1/3 or more of the content on pages you see is video.
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