Photobucket Restricting Everyone For Image Hosting

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Photobucket has started limiting posting to 3rd party sites (forums like this one) to people that have a non-paying account. What this means is if this forum is full of Photobucket images it will soon be a stupid cat in a box suggesting you sign up and pay a fee for membership.

Not happening to you yet? I have seen it for over a week on other sites and just thought someone wasn’t paying for their subscription, but I had a free account and it worked fine, but today I got an email telling me it wouldn’t be so anymore.

Here’s my issue, Photobucket was only charging $9.99 for years now, however, their lag is terrible, always a site maintenance issue, and advertising. To me advertising is the biggest issue, you can’t even log on without multiple ads popping up, they are all around the border, Then they have a popup for “Join Photobucket” with about four ads in it….”btw, buy our prints and canvass with your photos. Even if I paid for the service their lag and downtime is often really inconvenient. With all of the issues together I don’t trust the paid membership to be any better, in fact I know about ten people from two other forums that dropped their Photobucket accounts for this very reason.

My point is, I won’t be using Photobucket for any image hosting.

I also read where another image hosting site is doing similar. So we may be out of luck all the way. <shrug>

Here is an example of a thread I did with multiple pictures.
https://www.edcforums.com/threads/tops-alrt-edc-blade.137667/

I didn’t start this thread to dog Photobucket as much as it may sound like, they’ve offered me a free service for two years, but I don’t think that service is worth my money with the hassle. The reason I brought it up was for fair warning as to why the photos may disappear from all of us Photobucket users and maybe other services as well.

If anyone is using a service that is simple enough and preferably no fees, or at least reliable service with fair overall value please share here. STILL that leaves many of us rebuilding broken links. I’m sure forums across the net are obviously having these same issues.

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I attempted to sign up to see what they would charge because it did say $9.99 yearly. They say no ads, full resolution, etc…..for :eek:$399.00 a :censored:year!!!:confused::confused:

:mad::stomp:

[chaosmagnet Loaded Pockets]

Rest in pieces, photobucket. I’ve hated them ever since they started aggressively directing images to HTML pages. “You wanted to save that image? Screw you, here’s a redirect page, now you saved a corrupt file.”

I use imgur.com. They’re mostly memes but they’re free and let me direct link without any shenanigans. Right click, copy image url. Album management is a little clunky though. 8/10.

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I’ve been using imgur too for forever. Been solid thus far…

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I don’t think so, I’ve seen enough people lately that had it happen and it seems to be progressive. It would be to much of a coincidence for me and multiple others to all have our libraries fill up over a week. I only have a few hundred, maybe a little over 300 and I’m far from filling my allowance.

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