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Well, as it seems all the pictures I have ever posted are now gone unless I want to pay Photobucket $399 a year.
Anyone know of an alternative way to post pictures?
They are not supported here on a mobile device.

I still using mine for free. Did something happen?

helomech said:

I still using mine for free. Did something happen?

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Yeah, they changed there term of service, locked me out of all my pictures unless I pay $399 a year.
Check out my 1960 et-1 edger thread.
If you still have access to your account you better get your pictures saved from there before you have to pay to get them back.

It is a scam.
Photo bucket is working as good ( or bad ) as ever.
They have dropped the size limit of your free storage space so if you have a lot of photos there you might have exceeded that limit.

bertsmobile1 said:

It is a scam.
Photo bucket is working as good ( or bad ) as ever.
They have dropped the size limit of your free storage space so if you have a lot of photos there you might have exceeded that limit.

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Google it....look at my posts....not a scam. When I go on Photobucket I get the same as on my posts with pictures. It is affecting all forums with Photobucket in bedded pictures. And I got an email from Photobucket telling me I had to upgrade.

Here is a pic from my photo bucket account.

Seems to still be working.

helomech said:

Seems to still be working.

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Hasn't got to everyone yet. Can you see my pictures in my ET-1 thread?
Check this out
https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet

Or this
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/

unclelee said:

Hasn't got to everyone yet. Can you see my pictures in my ET-1 thread?
Check this out
https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet

Or this
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/

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OK ,
Looks like you are correct, my appologies.
People on other forums have been saying the same thing and when I checked my images were still there and working just fine.
A while back there was a similar thing going around as an email which was a scam demanding payment.
A sign of the times I suppose.
It costs a lot of money to run a big web server.
So photo bucket is spending money to host all these images which are going to other web sites which are making the profit from people spending a lot of time looking at the photobucket images.
Thus I can understand they want some sort of payment.
The amount they are asking is stupid because I can buy server space for a lot less than that and link to my own web space.
They will be missed just like Klicka & Zoom and all those other photo hosting sites that have gone but the world will not stop turning.
I only had a hundred or so images there and the reason for linking most of them is long gone.

Still not sure it is not some sort of rerouting scam as photobucket have always sent me emails to my registered address when they were changing conditions addressed to me personally unlike all of the scams which are addressed to "dear photobucket user "
For all we know Photobucket might have been hacked by a third party demanding millions from them.
I have noted that it only appears to be windows useres who have had their photos quarrintined.
Time will tell.

399.00!!!! That's called randsomware isn't it?

Jeff

That's how I see it. :thumbdown:

Photobucket's change in policy is a real outrage. I think it will backfire on them.

Here's an article about this.

From that article:

For users who are affected by this, it is important to note that the images are not gone. They are still hosted on Photobucket, and you can actually load them right then and there by right-clicking on them and selecting "open image in new tab" or "open link in new tab" depending on the web browser that you are using. This opens the Photobucket website where the original image is displayed

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So you can get your photos from Photobucket without paying that absurd fee and just store them somewhere else.

http://i.imgur.com/TiUIsM9.jpg

Testing a new service

https://goo.gl/photos/KeF3qwV9FMsFDMFUA

https://flic.kr/p/V3Bfqm

Well, as it seems on other forums I have been able to post pictures by switching to the mobile version. But not here.
I guess untill this is fixed I will no longer be able to fully use this forum. Thanks Photobucket.

panistefanin said:

I'm new and I'm interested in this topic. Thank you!
tellpizzahut

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I would advise anyone DO NOT CLICK on any link by this poster. It's either spam...or worse.

unclelee said:

Well, as it seems on other forums I have been able to post pictures by switching to the mobile version. But not here.
I guess untill this is fixed I will no longer be able to fully use this forum. Thanks Photobucket.

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You can post pictures directly from your computer here. Such as these. No Photobucket or any other hosting site needed:

Photobucket may have new GREEDY owners now. Google about it & see, Ebay & Amazon & other big corps are really steamed about this.

If I can get on to my pics there, I'm DELETING them all. I already have the originals. Then I'm blocking their emails.

The 'bucket sleeps with the fishes as far as I'm concerned.

7394 said:

Photobucket may have new GREEDY owners now. Google about it & see, Ebay & Amazon & other big corps are really steamed about this.

If I can get on to my pics there, I'm DELETING them all. I already have the originals. Then I'm blocking their emails.

The 'bucket sleeps with the fishes as far as I'm concerned.

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And that is the prime reason Photo bucket is charging

Amazon makes billions from using the photobucket hosted images for free as does evilbay.
It costs money to host all those images, a lot more than most can appreciate.
By going the shock horror route they and every one else can see who is being a parrasite
Then you get the "all too smart" web site authors who charge companies to create & "host" a commercial web while all the time all the images are actually on Photobuckets web server.
Cheats & crooks on the web are not restricted to gaming companies and snake oil merchants.

True enough Bert.

It's just the way photobucket held hostage my pics & those of many friends, wanting us to HAVE TO upgrade.

It's not a problem that they started charging for services, but 400 bucks a year is ridiculous.

7394 said:

True enough Bert.

It's just the way photobucket held hostage my pics & those of many friends, wanting us to HAVE TO upgrade.

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Oh yeah. they get 0 points for customer communications but when you think about it, if the object of the exercise was to "out" all the commercial sites then it had to be ambush before the web administrators could switch to another free hosting site.
A lot of web hosts down here were neck deep in poo.

And they did not hold your images hostage, they simply prevented the mass downloading so if I was hosting a lawn care site with 100 photos on it, it would take a long time to shift all the images.
About a week after bulk downloading got restored .
Not defending the way they did it but I can see logic behind it.
And all of my images still show up in 3rd party sites but there is only about 30 of them in the first place and about 200 links to an album so if you clicked a link here for example a new tab opens up in photobucket on your computer with my folder in it, thus photobucket gets the advertising revenue not Lawn World which is the object of the exercise.
Some people I know have thousands of images and they seemed to get hit early.
While a person will baulk at $ 400 /pa, if I am being paid to administer a bunch of web sites ( and I am ) then the $ 400 just gets divided into all of the sites then passed through as an increased hosting fee.
However I never use 3rd party feature if displaying images and always embed them in the web page because it makes the page load 10 times faster then if you want to display more then I can sell you more space .

I've never seen the reason why these photo hosting sites came into existence.

For starters, it means the image exists in two places--on your device, from where you held it AND at some big server in the sky. Hopefully, anybody who did this was smart enough to retain their "original" copy.

It also means that anyone can rifle through your photos, looking for who-knows-what. They can also copy and paste the photos, sometimes attributing ownership to themselves, even claiming to copyright the photo YOU took.

There certainly is no need for photo hosting sites on this forum, where all you have to do is click "insert image" and upload from your own computer. And as full of spammers as this site is, I'm hesitant to post photos here. Apparently there is no verification done on new members.

All my forum images were obliterated by the Photobucket extortion.

My preference remains w/ third party hosting. I can drop the same images into multiple forums using the same Internet links. Once uploaded to the hosting site, then it is "easy" for me to utilize that image as-required w/o having to access my total image database. The images are displayed in my preferred 800x600 image size, w/o requiring clicking on a thumbnail.

All of my images are watermarked by me w/ a copyright marking to make unauthorized appropriation more difficult. There has been only one jerk on one rogue forum (posing as a legitimate forum) that has stolen any of my images, to my knowledge.

Here is an example, showing my transition to Flikr.

I prefer the thumbnail images. There are some pictures I'd rather skip than have them thrust into my face.

Sure, the thumbnail image format can be a preference for some.

My experience is that toggling back and forth from normal-size image(s) (after clicking on the thumbnail) and the forum text (after clicking on the navigate back icon) is less efficient and less effective when reviewing a topic. When the full-size images are in-line w/ the text I find understanding the totality of the information when presented concurrently much more efficient.

Just seeing if I can post a picture from my phone.
Yep... it's a process but it's there.

cpurvis said:

I've never seen the reason why these photo hosting sites came into existence.

For starters, it means the image exists in two places--on your device, from where you held it AND at some big server in the sky. Hopefully, anybody who did this was smart enough to retain their "original" copy.

It also means that anyone can rifle through your photos, looking for who-knows-what. They can also copy and paste the photos, sometimes attributing ownership to themselves, even claiming to copyright the photo YOU took.

There certainly is no need for photo hosting sites on this forum, where all you have to do is click "insert image" and upload from your own computer. And as full of spammers as this site is, I'm hesitant to post photos here. Apparently there is no verification done on new members.

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Because disc space was very small and very expensive when things kicked off and image files were huge
I was involved with a web server run by a friend.
He used 1000 x 500 mb SCSSI disks for storage @ $ 300 each.
In those days we only had 8 bit words which effectively limited the accesable disc size to 400mb and the other 100 got chewed up with the disc directory.
Thus no web servers could afford to have a lot of photos hosted and remember line speeds were 28 kb/sec so an image could take better than a full minute to download.
To efficiently store an image you needed to format the hard disc differently to one that was only going to store data
So the internet would have choked to death with multiple images hosted on multiple sites.
The initial forums were nothing other than an email distribution system and Yahoo groups is about the sole remaining example of this type still running.
If you have been a member of a Yahoo group you would notice that posts can only contain text and images are kept on a separate drive which to the viewer appears as the photos folder.
Same with text files , graphs & charts.

The page you see before you does not exist anywhere but on your computer.
HTML , the internet language is in reality a desk top publishing applications that drags files off one or more servers then puts this here and that there on your computer.

Things changed when we went to 16 bit words and drives up to 32 Gb could be used
The current , just superceeded 32 bit word allows hard drives up to 120 Gb.
Current top end computers running 64 bit words allows drives up to 60 Tb

Thus up till around 2000 sites like photo bucket were essential for the internet to grow and in reality if all of the hosted images were moved to all the drives of the servers that they appear on the web would probably grind to a halt till every host quadrupled their discs capacity.

Welcome To The New Photobucket!

According to the Photobucket web site:


Here is their new pricing plan.

I have OVER 8,700 "images" on a single 32gig FLASH-Drive, with room to spare, cost = $22.00 @ Office Depot ,. on sale and I made a back-up of that ..... just in case, ..... ALL my manuals, & Important documents I do the same way, my computer is practically empty, storing all your photo's on a "phone", computer, or a third party entity is asinine to me.

Boobala said:

I have OVER 8,700 "images" on a single 32gig FLASH-Drive, with room to spare, cost = $22.00 @ Office Depot ,. on sale and I made a back-up of that ..... just in case, ..... ALL my manuals, & Important documents I do the same way, my computer is practically empty, storing all your photo's on a "phone", computer, or a third party entity is asinine to me.

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Does your 32GB flash drive permit sharing images in forum replies, 3rd party image hosting?

The 3rd Party Image Hosting is the function that was discontinued for a year by PB. It is the function users like me require for effective / efficient forum activity.

95% cheaper is still too high.

I'll pass.

I don't even like the idea of keeping photos on someone else's site. If a forum or whatever requires 3rd party hosting, I just won't post any pictures there.

wingless said:

Does your 32GB flash drive permit sharing images in forum replies, 3rd party image hosting?

The 3rd Party Image Hosting is the function that was discontinued for a year by PB. It is the function users like me require for effective / efficient forum activity.

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About EVERY pic I post on this forum is on my flash-drive, as long as it's plugged into my puter, I have no trouble uploading them to the forum or downloading from the site or almost any website or image displayed on my screen, for one thing I have a DESK-TOP puter, I do have a "smart-phone" ( Samsung J-3 Sky) but it's NEVER been connected to the "net" I use it ONLY as a phone and some ocassional texts, ...I BOUGHT it to use as a "convenience" phone, I use a 7 megapixel NIKON digital camera for pics, I just can't see using my phone as a puter and/or a camera, NOT when I have a 27 inch monitor to see a hell of a lot more than what a dollar bill size screen shows. BUT to each his own ..........

cpurvis said:

95% cheaper is still too high.

I'll pass.

I don't even like the idea of keeping photos on someone else's site. If a forum or whatever requires 3rd party hosting, I just won't post any pictures there.

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Couldn't agree more. Far as I'm concerned the bucket shot itself in the foot.

I did read page 3 and 4, but not the previous pages..... I am on a garden forum which I am one of the founding members of it ....

A lot of pics were lost/can't be seen because of PB ruckus... We had to see the ads and such when we got on the PB site. Fine and Dandy, anyone can see the ads or a short video.....

A friend of mine bought the .99 cents version before PB pulled their stunt....... He is still good on that version..... I need to check the forum to see if photos are back up............

300 bux a year is too much for a pic site, no matter what biz you in >>>>>>>

We found I Piccy to post our pics ~!~!