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An involved email from the bucket today.
Are my pictures still safe?
Yes! All your photos are still available by logging into your Photobucket Account. Photobucket has only restricted the ability to view your photos on 3rd party sites.
What is hard to understand is how it's been going on for so long without payback. I'd be fine with a nominal charge but I just want to know first.
A lot of data.
Are my pictures still safe?
Yes! All your photos are still available by logging into your Photobucket Account. Photobucket has only restricted the ability to view your photos on 3rd party sites.
A lot of data.
Photobucket is the global destination for linking and 3rd party hosting. In Photobucket’s 14-year history, the Company amassed over 100 million registered users, over 15 billion images stored, 2 million daily uploads and 10 billion photos accessed monthly.
Easy to Use – Upload a photo from any device and copy the embed code with one click to host a photo with no development or technical knowledge required
Competitive, fixed pricing Offers the only unlimited 3rd party hosting plan (Commercial and Personal Use)
Easy to Use – Upload a photo from any device and copy the embed code with one click to host a photo with no development or technical knowledge required
Competitive, fixed pricing Offers the only unlimited 3rd party hosting plan (Commercial and Personal Use)
This is most curious. My 'status' at Photobucket appears to be unchanged. I can still see photos I've posted on PPRuNe, but I can no longer see some others, where, for example, the excellent pictures from Dora-9 have been replaced by the item mentioned earlier in this post.
I have three pictures on this page. I can still see them as originally posted. Are they still there for anyone else?
FOR
I have three pictures on this page. I can still see them as originally posted. Are they still there for anyone else?
FOR
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This is most curious. My 'status' at Photobucket appears to be unchanged. I can still see photos I've posted on PPRuNe, but I can no longer see some others, where, for example, the excellent pictures from Dora-9 have been replaced by the item mentioned earlier in this post.
I have three pictures on this page. I can still see them as originally posted. Are they still there for anyone else?
FOR
I have three pictures on this page. I can still see them as originally posted. Are they still there for anyone else?
FOR
Have you been paying PB to upgrade to ad-free? Buy prints or anything?
'Tis a strange business indeed. (I almost feel the tiniest bit guilty)....
FOR
I have three pictures on this page. I can still see them as originally posted. Are they still there for anyone else?
FOR
FOR
Nope, it seems that the Photobucket ransomware has caught up with you, FOR...
I've been getting more e-mails from Photof*ckwit which I have ignored - it's as though they're getting more and more desperate. Are they in financial difficulty, or just plain greedy?
I've been getting more e-mails from Photof*ckwit which I have ignored - it's as though they're getting more and more desperate. Are they in financial difficulty, or just plain greedy?
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FOR, when you originally posted on this thread (12th), I could still see your pictures, but not Dora-9's. Now I can't see your either.
I presume that they have been running a process that's been churning through accounts, and as Beags has said, it's caught up with you.
SD
I presume that they have been running a process that's been churning through accounts, and as Beags has said, it's caught up with you.
SD
Yes - they've caught up with me by the looks of it ....
I'm not seriously upset for myself that PB have pulled the pin on free hosting - I have other options for publishing my occasional pictures, and they are more useful than PB. I wouldn't even be adverse to paying a reasonable subscription for the ongoing right to use PB as I have up until now. However it looks very much like I'll be up for a minimum of $100 pa, possibly $400 pa; It's not immediately apparent whether this figure is $AUS or $US. Most probably they are $US which translates to some $540 AUS for the full option - a ludicrous amount! Not that it matters - either amount is far in excess of what I can justify. I will just have to walk away from this quite useful option, and limit what I can do in this area in the future.
However I'm very disappointed at what this does to any worthwhile thread in this board which relies on quality pictures published at a size which makes it worth while. Some excellent threads on PPRuNe which exist for photo sharing only are now useless in the historical sense; previous pictures have been replaced by the PB "advertisement". Even if a new low cost (or even free) hosting provider is discovered, it would be a mammoth task to go back and edit every posting to point to the new URL. I suspect that most posters simply wouldn't bother.
Thank you PB, I appreciate what you have offered in the past, and I thank you for that. However you have now priced yourself out of my budget and it looks like the end of the road.....
FOR
I'm not seriously upset for myself that PB have pulled the pin on free hosting - I have other options for publishing my occasional pictures, and they are more useful than PB. I wouldn't even be adverse to paying a reasonable subscription for the ongoing right to use PB as I have up until now. However it looks very much like I'll be up for a minimum of $100 pa, possibly $400 pa; It's not immediately apparent whether this figure is $AUS or $US. Most probably they are $US which translates to some $540 AUS for the full option - a ludicrous amount! Not that it matters - either amount is far in excess of what I can justify. I will just have to walk away from this quite useful option, and limit what I can do in this area in the future.
However I'm very disappointed at what this does to any worthwhile thread in this board which relies on quality pictures published at a size which makes it worth while. Some excellent threads on PPRuNe which exist for photo sharing only are now useless in the historical sense; previous pictures have been replaced by the PB "advertisement". Even if a new low cost (or even free) hosting provider is discovered, it would be a mammoth task to go back and edit every posting to point to the new URL. I suspect that most posters simply wouldn't bother.
Thank you PB, I appreciate what you have offered in the past, and I thank you for that. However you have now priced yourself out of my budget and it looks like the end of the road.....
FOR
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