Bad news from photobucket....

[Carolinaman]

Hello,

Just in case some of you are using photobucket as your free hosting photo sharing website, I found this on photobuckets help center this morning:

support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/115009616207-My-account-has-been-restricted-due-to-3rd-party-hosting-Are-my-photos-safe-

It's really bad news for folks like that commonly use them to host/share photos and the sharing problems are not a proboard's issue.

Chris

[CXM]

Apparently Photobucket has a new (and expensive) charge for using third party links...

Probably best we discuss this in the moderators section.

Thanks


Chuck

[Carolinaman]

Hello Chuck,

No problem sir! I have already started a thread and have been doing some research on the issue.

Chris

[wags]

Wonderful......... I've used PB for many years. Last year had to pay them $14.99 to block advertisement pop ups which was enough to drive me nuts! We'll see if there is enough consumer outrage feedback that PB will reconsider. This is blackmail to me.

[hanshi]

Not only that but PB is holding about half my photos hostage and won't let me move them.  Before they pulled a gun on me I did manage to move the other 40%, maybe a little more.  I removed them from my bookmarks.  Aaarrgh...

[tpelle]

Yeah, I bagged Photobucket as soon as I could after they started charging for "3rd party hosting". Still browns me off when I visit a web forum and the photobucket-hosted photos are no longer visible. I'm honestly surprised that they're still around.