Photobucket demanding $399 to link to third party sites

[captain awesome]

I don't know about yoos guys, but there is a download album option on my account. On the right is a menu option listed Actions. It won't allow you to bulk download any videos or gifs in each album, but it will zip up the images for you to save.

[ELVA164]

Wow, some real dicks in here. "I don't wanna use it because it loads slowly and has ads" isn't the same as "get out now because they're going to hide everything behind a surprise paywall and make it impossible to download anything."

Fun fact: the URL in the image you now see in my sig? It goes to some guy's account page. He has some Captain America phone backgrounds and stuff. I'd show you, but well...

[2mAn]

Im starting to fix the links on my thread from photobucket to flickr. what a pain in the ass. fuck you photobucket

[ELVA164]

FYI, I read elsewhere today that IMGur doesn't allow images to be linked to on sites that have a classifieds section. It violates some part of their terms of service. Consider that before committing to them.

They're blocked on bf.c, as an example.

[Exodus_2pt0]

Just checked, my build thread hasn't been neutered yet.

I really do not feel like converting all those image links in every post.

Will probably just get all my photos, upload to another option, and do a photo dump in the thread.

[Das Delfin]

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I have most of my stuff on my hard drive but was able to grab some old ass pics back from the myspace days before my pb acct became defunct. I have an imgur now but it sounds like flickr is better!

[agent]

It is.

[ELVA164]

Regarding Flickr, it was recently acquired by Verizon and--knowing Verizon--it may not stay free forever.

[Wschnitz]

Its a semi professional site, its 100x less likely you will ever lose your pictures then trashbucket was.

[djjerme]

It's not just the car community - pretty much everything with a forum is getting affected by this.

While yes, PB has sucked for a LONG, LONG time - there is a lot of older stuff in archived threads that will get hit by this. I was reviewing Raul's old build thread and almost all the pix were hidden. I just went directly to his PB account and was able to see (and download them), but it's going to be an extra step when we hit up old threads.

Lately, I've just used Tapatalks to upload photo's since it's pretty easy to do - but I may start migrating links to my own paid for sites that I use for offsite backup of Family photos.

As others have said - it sucks, but I have always tried to keep multiple backups of any photo or video I have digitally. It's just the paranoia part of me I guess.

[parkerbink]

Funnny thing is I used to pay them years ago and have been using other means of hosting for a while, about 6 months ago I thought I better get my shit out of there and downloaded everything going back to 2002.

DIE IN A FIRE PB!!!

[agent]

Regarding Flickr, it was recently acquired by Verizon and--knowing Verizon--it may not stay free forever.

It's not free for me now, although I think the $25 I pay annually for a Pro account is worth every penny.

[djjerme]

It's not free for me now, although I think the $25 I pay annually for a Pro account is worth every penny.

$25 annually is reasonable..


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[varg]

Take your business elsewhere. Photobucket has been shit for years. By my best estimate I haven't used photobucket in 10 years.

[parkerbink]

Just got an email that my account has been suspended for third party linking. As it has been at least 5 years since I used them, it has to be an ancient thread somewhere.

I went in to look at the account and there are so many ads & pop ups my 180mb internets can't open the page.

WTF?