HOW TO stop videos from auto-playing on popular social media sites

After getting irritated with Facebook enforcing videos in a feed to autoplay by default, I had to dig into Settings to disable the autoplay setting. I noticed that LinkedIn has also started auto playing videos in my feed as part of its front-end refresh which I find very intrusive and annoying.

In case you find the video autoplay feature bothersome, here's how you can disable that feature -

Facebook - Settings | Video settings > Auto-Play Videos - Off

Twitter - Settings | Account > Content > uncheck Video autoplay checkbox in case it is checked.

LinkedIn - Settings | Site Preferences >  Autoplay videos

Internet data plans are cheaper these days but it doesn't mean these websites have to hog our bandwidth without consent