Photobucket 3rd party hosting changes

[CamoDeafie]

Looks like photobucket is going to die a quicker death now with their most recent changes to terms of use. I have already deleted all my files from my Photobucket account so apologies if there are missing pictures in some threads but.. ya gotta do what ya gotta do eh?

What changed?
They now say free users and users on limited budgets cannot share photos to forums, ebay or other sites without paying a $399.99/year subscription plan.

On top of that, ya had to upgrade to a paid subscription plan to be free of ads(annoying invasive crap) or you cannot access your own photos with adblocker on

Or if you have more than a specific amount of gigabytes of photos, you gotta make room or pay up.

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[Caveman Jim]

Yep, good bye PB, just like FB... Die vermin internet....

 

[Stomper]

Who needs 'em anyway?

 

[CamoDeafie]

Who needs 'em anyway?

For a long while they were the best service to use for lots of photos when most forums didnt allow attachments.... then it changed recently and now basically youre better off using a different service if not forum attachments
Imgur is basically killing photobucket witg their system of allowing social media shares and comments and so on without being a member

 

[WAYNO]

A lesson learned here. I have 1800+ photos on photobucket. I know I can transfer them, but so far it's been time consuming to do so.

I have been a paying customer to be ad free and to have extra storage, and so far they have not yet restricted my photo sharing in any way. Don't know if that'll happen when my current subscription expires, or if it's gonna happen tomorrow. On another gun forum I frequent, posted photos are being denied by the thousands. And the waves from this are being felt throughout the world. Photobucket has been very popular with every type of forum imaginable. Car collectors, car repair, flying clubs, gun collectors, you name it. I don't think folks will be as trusting with a photo host ever again. If photobucket can do it, so can all the rest of the hosting sites. Used to be, all my photos were in photo albums. Not too many years ago, my photos all became digital. That's another way to say vulnerable.

 

[BDA.45]

A lesson learned here. I have 1800 photos on photobucket. I know I can transfer them, but so far it's been time consuming to do so.

I have been a paying customer to be ad free and to have extra storage, and so far they have not yet restricted my photo sharing in any way. Don't know if that'll happen when my current subscription expires, or if it's gonna happen tomorrow. On the gun collector site I most frequent, posted photos are being denied by the thousands. And the waves from this are being felt throughout the world. Photobucket has been very popular with every type of forum imaginable. Car collectors, car repair, flying clubs, gun collectors, you name it. I don't think folks will be as trusting with a photo host ever again. If photobucket can do it, so can all the rest of the hosting sites. Used to be, all my photos were in photo albums. Not too many years ago, my photos all became digital. That's another way to say vulnerable.

Well, looks like your gonna have to sell all your guns to us dlpshltz......

 

[etrain16]

I have a Photobucket free account, but never use it. I used it for a time when sites like this didn't allow direct uploads - once that changed, I saw absolutely no need for a photo hosting site. I haven't uploaded anything to them in probably 2-3 years. I think sites like them are likely a dying breed. I wasn't impressed with the slow speed and excessive ads on PB anyway. That said, I'm surprised to hear they are getting so hard-azzed with their pricing. Must be their model of slow speed and excessive ads wasn't making them rich.

Now if only Facebook would collapse and die a painful, yet public, death.

 

[MilitantBEEMER]

Other than iCloud for my photos, I use no other cloud services any longer. Remember free is NEVER FREE.

 

[Hawaiian]

I have used the free PB for years. I have a ton of pictures there. NW Firearms saves the PB links differently and my pictures are still showing here that were posted previously, not any new ones though. On other forums, all of the pictures in posts for years have been replaced with the PB notice to upgrade. This sucks. Threads are ruined. Due to a computer crash, I don't have most of the photos that are stored on PB. PB won't let me copy or save the photos off their site. If anyone knows a workaround, I would love to hear from you.
PB is holding my pictures hostage for ransom. They want $400.00 to unlock them.

 

[etrain16]

I have used the free PB for years. I have a ton of pictures there. NW Firearms saves the PB links differently and my pictures are still showing here that were posted previously, not any new ones though. On other forums, all of the pictures in posts for years have been replaced with the PB notice to upgrade. This sucks. Threads are ruined. Due to a computer crash, I don't have most of the photos that are stored on PB. PB won't let me copy or save the photos off their site. If anyone knows a workaround, I would love to hear from you.
PB is holding my pictures hostage for ransom. They want $400.00 to unlock them.

Interesting. I just logged in to look at my account - I still have access to my photos, can even download them to my computer if I want. No idea why yours are being blocked.

I'm afraid I don't have a workaround to suggest, except to say, in the future, consider doing what I do - I store EVERY photo in at least 2 locations aside from my main computer - a removable hard drive that lives in my gun safe when not actively being used and some other method - either a 2nd drive stored somewhere else or on a DVD-R, also stored in another location. But then, I'm a bit anal that way. I don't trust hosting sites/the cloud for this very reason.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I downloaded what I wanted to save and I also have most if not all the original files saved on my durable 64gb thumb drive after my previous 3 laptops' harddrives went bye bye... I also have another thumb drive ready to backup the images if needed as well. Habit from the old days of the internet when I had only digital cameras and a laptop to go around with.

 

[Jim Colvill]

I've downloaded what I wanted as well and deleted my account. Adieu Phucbucket.

 

[PDXSparky]

Photobucket? Meh.

Imgur is superior for photo sharing.

 

[Diamondback]

Except that Imgur's TOS now say "No Sharing" too.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Except that Imgur's TOS now say "No Sharing" too.

Citation needed for that. I was able to share my sci fi scale model photo dumps to a specific forum since that forum has a 4 img/600x900 pixel attachment limit....

 

[Diamondback]

Citation needed for that. I was able to share my sci fi scale model photo dumps to a specific forum since that forum has a 4 img/600x900 pixel attachment limit....

From Imgur

Stuff not to do
If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child porn or nonconsensual ("revenge") porn. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.

Relevant sections in red and bolded.

 

[CamoDeafie]

"From elsewhere". Doesnt mean cant share from Imgur galleries itself... otherwise why would they have share links.. at least; from what I can see of my own image dumps.. eh. Anyways if that goes away.. no big loss for me as I do have the originals on the thumb drive anyhow.

 

[Diamondback]

Just noting that that may not be acceptable to the more risk-averse among us.

 

[Member 5605]

Their site, their rules and their terms of service.

I challenge you to run your own photo hosting website and see how much bandwidth it takes to run 1TB of images hotlinked across the internet.

I bet you aren't ready for the $30,000+/month cost.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Their site, their rules and their terms of service.

I challenge you to run your own photo hosting website and see how much bandwidth it takes to run 1TB of images hotlinked across the internet.

I bet you aren't ready for the $30,000+/month cost.

Thats what shareholders and investors are for....... to provide capital to maintain the service of selling content.
(ad revenue is also a part of it)
If anything.. content creators should at least be paid for their content; at the least, for their articles, photos, or apps.
Yea I know, we freely share our photos but say some publication or website wants to use some of our photos or videos or likenesses.. we should get some payment for use of our content .