Photobucket charges sudden fee to embed photos.

[Palamon]

just out of curiosity: why?

I just have a strong dislike. That's all.

 

[Desert Stream~]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses discord for image hosting xD I'm pretty sure most of my past signatures are still on discord somewhere.

 

[Tsutarja]

I just have a strong dislike. That's all.

And why do you have a strong dislike?

If you can't explain why, then I fail to see the purpose of even having one.

 

[Palamon]

And why do you have a strong dislike?

If you can't explain why, then I fail to see the purpose of even having one.

I just hate the setup of the website. I find it to be unbearable to use because of the option to just use it willy-nilly w/o an account. Feel unsafe to me. Good enough answer for you?

 

[Tsutarja]

I just hate the setup of the website. I find it to be unbearable to use because of the option to just use it willy-nilly w/o an account. Feel unsafe to me. Good enough answer for you?

Yeah, I guess. However, what's wrong with the fact that you don't need to register an account? I actually find that to be convenient to people who don't want to have accounts everywhere just so they could link an image.

 

[Starry Windy]

Personally I find it odd because usually images are supposed to be shared, there would be no point to upload the image if they couldn't freely share it in the first place, unless if they wanted their uploads to be private by choice. Plus, I think other hosting site like Imgur, in which I hosted some images at, are more prevalent than Photobucket nowadays, so this is a bad move on the latter's part.

Plus, I have visited some sites which have Photobucket as the image hoster and it didn't display well at all after that policy :(

 

[Guest123_x1]

I had terminated/deleted my Photobucket account a few months ago, long before this last-minute decision by them to charge for hotlinking.

Part of me believes Photobucket made this decision to take advantage of changes within the economy as of late, especially with Donald Trump being President and George Soros/Google/Amazon/Facebook's 'net neutrality' rules (that completely exempt web portals such as those I mentioned from its regulations) being scrapped.

The fact that this change came so suddenly and with little notice and virtually no explanation as to why probably is a sign that something is up with the company financially. (Perhaps allowing hot-linking of images without subscription fees put a significant strain on the company's finances and the company's financial backers are forcing this change on them?)

 

[Tsutarja]

Part of me believes Photobucket made this decision to take advantage of changes within the economy as of late, especially with Donald Trump being President and George Soros/Google/Amazon/Facebook's 'net neutrality' rules (that completely exempt web portals such as those I mentioned from its regulations) being scrapped.

I really doubt politics had anything to do with this change. Yes, Photobucket was probably losing money as a company, but hotlinking images to other sites does consume bandwidth on their end, and they may have not had the finances to easily upgrade their bandwidth availability to continue allowed support for .

Now do I still think the $400 annual fee is ransom? Absolutely. Had they maybe charged $20/year for the same service, there'd likely be nowhere near as many complaints about this I'm sure.

 

[Corrin]

I used to use it to host images but not really any more, haven't for years.
Imgur for me, or I just upload it to tumblr if its a graphic

 

[Sheep]

This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Many people, myself included, already stopped using Photobucket in favor of Imgur years ago since it's so clunky and laggy. I guess they wanted to kill off their dwindling userbase even more. Now I'm off fixing any broken Photobucket links around the sites I use. Psh.

 

[Caite-chan]

This is complete and utter crap. I've been using Photobucket for almost 15 years. So far as of right now...all of my stuff still works but I am in the process as of now moving my stuff over to Imgur. Though they aren't letting me download any of my stuff so I have to move everything one by one. And do that while going through all the ads.

 

[Palamon]

Wait, what, $400.00s a year?! What even...

 

[Tsutarja]

And do that while going through all the ads.

Just curious, but is there a reason you don't have an ad blocker installed?

 

[Caite-chan]

Just curious, but is there a reason you don't have an ad blocker installed?

Last time I checked I did. I think it's their way of trying to get people to pay to a.) use it and b.) get rid of the ads.

 

[Tsutarja]

Last time I checked I did. I think it's their way of trying to get people to pay to a.) use it and b.) get rid of the ads.

If you have an ad blocker then you shouldn't be seeing ads at all on their site unless you somehow whitelisted them.

 

[Urist McHemlock]

$400 a year? That's highway robbery! Then again, Photobucket has been dying due to Imgur getting extremely popular.

 

[bitelaserkhalif]

I actually has been noticing this problem somehow earlier at vstanced.com.
However they seems to have one robust solution, which is private image hosting.

The problem was less imminent on vstanced, due to the users use private hosting, and also imgur.
But on this forum, the problem is quite destructive... and annoying, like this
Speedometers everywhere!
My suggestion is to make private image hosting, as there's still a probability imgur is blocked, it was used to be blocked here in Indonesia, but no more.

If you has uploaded it into Photobucket, which is quite plenty on this forum, try to retrieve your picture and reupload it to imgur back... your picture is still OK, not deleted.

anyway sorry for bump.

 

[Tsutarja]

My suggestion is to make private image hosting, as there's still a probability imgur is blocked, it was used to be blocked here, but no more.

What? I've never heard of PC blocking imgur. Where have you heard of this?

 

[bitelaserkhalif]

What? I've never heard of PC blocking imgur. Where have you heard of this?

PokeCommunity doesn't block imgur. But our country (Indonesia) was used to be blocking it (but no more now). Silly. Also now giphy got caught due to gambling advertisements. Wut?

 

[KNS27]

PokeCommunity doesn't block imgur. But our country (Indonesia) was used to be blocking it (but no more now). Silly. Also now giphy got caught due to gambling advertisements. Wut?

I don't understand why they block it.There so many blogs or website that have many many Gambling ads, but they not block it.Even Internet Positif has 18+ click bait ads.