What is Photobucket thinking!?!?

[Zick]

PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images - gHacks Tech News


Apparently now they feel something they been giving/allowing for many many years is worth $400/yr. :thumbdown:
No way is it worth that much but this is crap because now all my pictures are screwed up and even changing to another hosting site would mean having to go back and re-link all the photo's over again...

 

[smstonypoint]

PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images - gHacks Tech News


Apparently now they feel something they been giving/allowing for many many years is worth $400/yr. :thumbdown:
No way is it worth that much but this is crap because now all my pictures are screwed up and even changing to another hosting site would mean having to go back and re-link all the photo's over again...

That explains the image I have seen on several TBN posts this morning.

Steve

 

[turnkey4099]

That explains the image I have seen on several TBN posts this morning.

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Steve

I didn't think I had any third party but I got a notice they have disabled some of my account because of it (I am still on the freeby altho they keep bugging me to upgrade)

Anyone have a suggestion for another free photo hosting site?

 

[frugalangler]

Would something like DropBox work? You can set public folders and then share the link out I believe, never done it but I think it works that way.

 

[Wagtail]

Sounds like Photobucket has enough people's images in their archives that they reckon they've got their 'clients' by the short&curlys.

It's a form of extortion.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I had no idea... bummed out, I have thousands of pictures stored in PB.

 

[drssg]

Anyone have a suggestion for another free photo hosting site?

I think there are a bunch of free options. If you sign up for a Hotmail account, you can use OneDrive. It will automatically sync to a folder on your PC, you can share folders, and they have a mobile client.

 

[mopardude318]

i have years of picture posting on various forums using photobucket...im pretty dang pissed off they'd pull this crap...dang near ALL photos I've posted are now gone...

im not giving photobucket a **** penny.

 

[flyerdan]

I think that photobucket thought that it would be big and clever to get in on this ransomeware craze that's going about. They might get one out of every 10000 or so to pay up until they find a workaround, but they've effectively deposited something entirely unpalatable in their mess kit.

 

[vvanders]

Definitely a high price but bandwidth isn't free. I pay for a flickr account just for this reason.

If you're using something for 'free' then you're not using a product, you are the product.