PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images
By Martin Brinkmann on June 30, 2017 in Internet - Last Update:June 30, 2017 3

If you have visited a website recently that displays images hosted on Photobucket, or are embedding images hosted on Photobucket on your own, you may have had a rather rude awakening one day as Photobucket decided to block these images from being displayed on third-party sites.

All Photobucket images hosted on third-party sites, at least from what we can tell, are replaced by a dummy image. It reads: Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting. For important info, please go to www.photobucket.com/P500.

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/



ONE WORD: IMGUR

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2017 04:23AM by chuckhoffmann.

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> They're banking that at least some small fraction
> of their users will look at the costs of migrating
> hundreds or thousands of images from Photobucket
> to another service and decide it's cheaper to
> cough up the $39.95/month fee than pay someone to
> spend several days or weeks moving all the files
> over, then updating all the image links.
>
> Some people will rage quit Photobucket, of course,
> which means that Photobucket doesn't have to pay
> to store those freeloaders' images.
>
> I'd take this as an early sign that Photobucket
> has finally decided it needs to actually make
> money or go out of business, so any photos you've
> got on there should probably be moved before the
> latter happens.
>
> src="http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l617/chuc
> khoffmann/Random%20Internet/Giant_Zucchini.png"
> border="0" alt=" photo Giant_Zucchini.png"/>


so, Imgur it is?

If they wanted to start charging $5 a month it would be realistic and many would start paying but $40 a month is absurd. I predict Photobucket will end up losing 95 percent of their users and go out of business because of this.

The real reason is that we are in deep financial trouble. This stems from the failed merger of Photobucket and Arthur Treacher's Corp. When that deal fell through, our primary investors pulled out. They were looking forward to discounted fish and chips. When that didn't happen, they bailed. Now we have to raise revenue somehow.

IMGUR to the rescue! Wrote:
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> PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party
> hosted images
> By Martin Brinkmann on June 30, 2017 in Internet -
> Last Update:June 30, 2017 3
>
> If you have visited a website recently that
> displays images hosted on Photobucket, or are
> embedding images hosted on Photobucket on your
> own, you may have had a rather rude awakening one
> day as Photobucket decided to block these images
> from being displayed on third-party sites.
>
> All Photobucket images hosted on third-party
> sites, at least from what we can tell, are
> replaced by a dummy image. It reads: Please update
> your account to enable 3rd party hosting. For
> important info, please go to
> www.photobucket.com/P500.
>
> https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-
> charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/
>
>
>
> ONE WORD: IMGUR
>
>
>
>

moderators are often extortion / treason people

moderators "linux admins" killed linux (for hate of usa, by payment of microsoft, for adding malware some country wanted in "for control during wartime")

I caught wikipedia moderators removing photos from wikimedia and extorting people who posted them (who had lost their original and written about the removal) for a high fee to restore the images which were for no reason "moved"

extortion and moderation go hand in hand

moderation is also used to prevent free speech: #1, what the moderators are doing and how to stop them, is the first thing to "be moderated"

certainly media posting has a cost but anyone knows it's not $300 a month or even a year