By John McCarthy

Social network Facebook’s video autoplay feature has been blamed for sending mobile users over their data limits after the site was bombarded with ALS Ice Bucket Challenge clips.

The autoplay option, which was automatically implemented into the site earlier this year on an opt-out basis, resulted in Facebook timeline videos being played regardless of whether the viewer wanted to see the content on Wi-Fi, 3G or even 4G connections.

This change reportedly caused a spike in consumers’ mobile users’ data allowances, especially after Ice Bucket Challenge videos recently took over the site.

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Source: The Drum