Facebook's sponsored stories won't be around past April 9 Consumer Affairs reported Friday
The stories utilized users names, photos and profiles according to information from Consumer Affairs.
The social media platform conceded to fund $20 million in a class action lawsuit that reportedly stated the advertisements intruded upon users lives Consumer Affairs reported.
"As before, you are in control of who sees what you post on Facebook, whether it appears in News Feed, next to ads, or elsewhere on Facebook," Facebook said in a blog post on their website Thursday. "You can visit your Activity Log to see who can see stories about your social actions and change the audience or unlike or delete the content at any time," the post said. "In addition, you can visit your Ads and Friends setting to limit when stories about your social actions are paired with ads shown to friends."
Facebook recently added videos that play when a user comes across them on the page, and stop when a user closes out Facebook said in a statement.
Users automatically hear and see the muted videos from advertisers playing on their newsfeed as they show up on their computer screen the company said in a press release on their website December. Consumers who are not interested in viewing the video are able to continue down the page.
Those who want to watch the video can click on it and hear the sound in the video, especially when it is in full screen.
The viewer then sees two more videos from the same advertiser after the first video they saw had finished.
The videos on mobile devices do not take up any space or costs on data plans as the media is pre-loaded through a Wi-Fi network, and accessible even when disconnected from wireless internet when the video is played the press release reported.
Facebook joins a market that has YouTube's video advertising at 75 percent compared to last year according to information from Forbes.
