Photobucket demanding $399 to link to third party sites

[ForcedFirebird]

Something strange here.

I have Chrome installed on desktop, but don't use it. Tested the above extension, open FireFox on said desktop and they are fixed on that as well? WTF?!?!?

[LateFan]

We need all the old DIY thread pics to show up or there is much learning lost! This is why I've never hosted pics anywhere, I just upload them directly to the forum and I hope that means they're permanent (?)

I'm finding a lot of DIY thread pics missing. Usually it was because they were ancient and not kept up by the poster. Now it's this photo bucket thing. E30tech is back up, but a lot of their pics are gone too.

Curious - why are people using photobucket in the first place, vs a Flickr or whatever? Who controls your photos?

[Exodus_2pt0]

Because Photobucket is old school and we are old.

[ForcedFirebird]

Because Photobucket is old school and we are old.

This. My kids are from middle school to college. Updating my photo links from 1.5 decades ago for car forums would not be as important as archiving my family photos, sorry :(

[LateFan]

and we are old.

Me too - I don't even know how to use these hosting deals!

[agent]

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=405411

[LowR3V'in]

do you think youtube will be forever? 10 years from now will it be the same?

[george graves]

Dropbox did the same thing recently. Despite 10's of thousands of people complaining (a good chunk of them college professors, or what-not) Dropbox didn't care. They just nuked all the links. All my "project pics" are gone. I'm not too upset - as it was time to re-startt that anyways.

[Panici]

We need all the old DIY thread pics to show up or there is much learning lost! This is why I've never hosted pics anywhere, I just upload them directly to the forum and I hope that means they're permanent (?)

I'm finding a lot of DIY thread pics missing. Usually it was because they were ancient and not kept up by the poster. Now it's this photo bucket thing. E30tech is back up, but a lot of their pics are gone too.

This isn't ideal, but at least it will preserve the pictures and info for the future. It works on broken e30tech threads too.

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=410901

[agent]

Just noticed the very large "proudly hosted by Photobucket" watermark for the first time, in this thread:

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=425061

[MrBurgundy]

i have some plugins on my chrome browser, so everything looks normal here.

[varg]

I don't see it. But I don't understand why anyone would continue to use photobucket.

[Schnitzer318is]

Just noticed the very large "proudly hosted by Photobucket" watermark for the first time, in this thread:

https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/sho...d.php?t=425061

Wow... that is large. Is that what happens when you pay the money they are asking?

i have some plugins on my chrome browser, so everything looks normal here.

Same, for both my chrome and firefox.

I don't see it. But I don't understand why anyone would continue to use photobucket.

Couldn't download my albums off of PB (they made it impossible basically) but I switched to postimg which seems to work well. Much better site in terms of speed compared to PB. I'm sure the same thing will happen to them in the future if they get too large though.

[rturbo 930]

Wow, that really is gigantic. Fuck that. Glad I got rid of my account.

[djjerme]

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