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Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

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Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« on: August 11, 2017, 07:59:45 pm »
https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet

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As Norvic Philatelics discovered, Photobucket changed its terms and conditions and removed the 3rd Party Hosting feature from the lower subscription tiers. If you want to continue using that feature then a Photobucket Plus 500 subscription is required. It costs $39.99 per month or $399 per year.
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Re: Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2017, 08:03:49 pm »
Yeah I lost a lot of photos there that I can't move unless I pay. Fortunately most of my family photos are stored elsewhere....

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Re: Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2017, 01:46:28 am »
This is one more example of why one should NEVER trust "the cloud".

Nothing is better than a "backup you can touch" -- along with another physical backup stored off-site.
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2017, 01:55:37 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on August 11, 2017, 08:03:49 pm
Yeah I lost a lot of photos there that I can't move unless I pay. Fortunately most of my family photos are stored elsewhere....

here is another free housing

Imgur.com

You can't  even download them to your own device?
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Re: Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2017, 01:59:39 am »
Quote from: Bigun on August 12, 2017, 01:55:37 am
You can't  even download them to your own device?

No..you can't move them....luckily most are gifs and such but I did put a lot of family photos there which I have at another place too.
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Re: Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2017, 02:02:07 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on August 12, 2017, 01:59:39 am
No..you can't move them....luckily most are gifs and such but I did put a lot of family photos there which I have at another place too.

That's awful.  They should have at least given folks a 'heads-up' so they could retrieve their photos before they switched over to a paid service.
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Re: Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2017, 02:32:30 am »
Quote from: mystery-ak on August 12, 2017, 01:59:39 am
No..you can't move them....luckily most are gifs and such but I did put a lot of family photos there which I have at another place too.

I never read their service agreement but that sucks in any case.  Surely NOT a good way to win friends and develop customers IMHO.

IT'S likely someone will sue them

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Re: Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2017, 03:23:31 pm »
Interesting.  So far most of my links don't seem to have broken.
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