Photobucket banning 3rd party hosting

Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:21 pm

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Heads up. Photobucket has changed their TOS to where you cannot hotlink images from your account. Slowly people are finding themselves locked out of their accounts because of this, and to unlock you have to fork over $400. Accounts that have been hit will show this in place of an image:

Looks like it's happened with mine also.
They're pretty much holding your images for ransom, and this needs to be spread around and those rat bastards reported.

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Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:19 pm

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Wow, really? I think the thing to do here is to boycott it and use a better alternative like imgur.

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Sun Jul 09, 2017 6:34 pm

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Whoa, super shitty, thanks for the warning, saving my junk now

Re: Photobucket banning 3rd party hosting

Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:07 am

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Hmm I'm trying to get my old signature to run on imgur but while it goes there fine it won't let me put it back into my signature. Can someone help me work this?

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Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:14 am

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It's been a prominent problem lately. Not sure why. When I try, it says that the dimensions of the image couldn't be determined. Probably best to PM the mods in this case.

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Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:11 am

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Socot wrote:

It's been a prominent problem lately. Not sure why. When I try, it says that the dimensions of the image couldn't be determined. Probably best to PM the mods in this case.

I've got the same problem. I can't even remove the one that Photobucket zapped because when I try it says that about the other two. And I know they're within the sig size limit (been within limits for maybe 5 years).

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Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:25 am

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Man both Pissbucket and Imageshack doing away with 3rd party hosting has screwed up so many topics here. I decided to look up some from the past and found nearly all of the images gone. Like in this one (still a funny moment on these forums):
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13030

I managed to pull the Bucket images (despite them telling me to disable my Adblock first) and upload them to Tinypic, then updated my posts with them so people can see what they were (no luck with Imageshack).

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Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:57 am

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TinyPic? That might be a suitable alternative. Maybe I can get my images running again.

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Fri Sep 08, 2017 12:14 pm

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I've always used imgur, and aside from the occasional server overload, all of my ~~memes~~ ~~shitposts~~ images have remained there since day 1. They have been trying to turn it into a pseudo social platform, but you can always set the images to private.

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Fri Sep 08, 2017 1:10 pm

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sumguy28 wrote:

I've always used imgur, and aside from the occasional server overload, all of my ~~memes~~ ~~shitposts~~ images have remained there since day 1. They have been trying to turn it into a pseudo social platform, but you can always set the images to private.

Yeah I tried that to start but earlier posts in the thread showed that it was having trouble with imgur images.

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Sat Feb 03, 2018 6:11 pm

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Pierre wrote:

sumguy28 wrote:

I've always used imgur, and aside from the occasional server overload, all of my ~~memes~~ ~~shitposts~~ images have remained there since day 1. They have been trying to turn it into a pseudo social platform, but you can always set the images to private.

Yeah I tried that to start but earlier posts in the thread showed that it was having trouble with imgur images.

Just a small bump, but recently the images in signatures have started working again, so you can replace the Photobucket images now for good.

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Thu May 17, 2018 6:09 am

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Posting here again, but it seems that all the Photobucket images have returned somehow?!

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Thu May 17, 2018 6:36 am

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Huh, apparently they have. And their site still mentions needing to buy one of their plans for 3rd party hosting, so no idea what's happening. Let's hope it stays that way, for the sake of about half the images in the old topics here.

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Thu May 17, 2018 6:50 am

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Google tells me they were e-mailing users a while back telling them they could buy a cheaper plan (as opposed to the $400 one) to enable 3rd party hosting. Perhaps that was an attempt to undo the damage, and this a further one? I'm still gonna stick with Imgur.

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Thu May 17, 2018 6:53 am

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Well, it seems they have a new management now. Guess that explains a lot of stuff. So I guess this means that Photobucket will be free again for the foreseeable future?

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Thu May 17, 2018 7:30 am

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Southern Corn wrote:

Well, it seems they have a new management now. Guess that explains a lot of stuff. So I guess this means that Photobucket will be free again for the foreseeable future?

That's incredibly weird.

Sumguy had just fixed my old signature so it was within acceptable Margins then this happens?

Bah I still appreciate it Sumguy!

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Thu May 17, 2018 11:41 am

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Southern Corn wrote:

Well, it seems they have a new management now. Guess that explains a lot of stuff. So I guess this means that Photobucket will be free again for the foreseeable future?

"For a limited time, we are offering a new, competitive subscription package that includes ad-free storage and 3rd party image hosting for just $1.99 per month, or $19.99 per year - which is 95 percent less than the previous pricing model. A free subscription option will still be available to customers who do not require 3rd party image hosting."

I'm assuming any images people upload to Photobucket in the future won't be able to be accessed off-site unless they've bought a subscription.

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Thu May 17, 2018 12:17 pm

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Seems so, but at the very least:

Quote:

Q: What if I don’t want to purchase a subscription? Can I have my images back?

A: Yes, you are free to download your images. They belong to you! We believe our new subscription plan is priced fairly and is very competitive to other services. Our new management team is committed to serving our customers in the best possible way, and we hope you will consider this offer and keeping your images with Photobucket.

You'll be able to take back your photos if you don't want to get a subscription.