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Post by rhyswh on Jun 29, 2017 8:55:05 GMT
So I noticed my Avatar pic changed to some image stating 100% usage. Checked the pictures I've posted on all forums I use and everyone of them has changed to the same thing!
Photobucket have now changed their T's&C's and no longer allow you to host 3rd party images unless you pay them.......wait for it.........$399.99! It's a god awful site to start with, I've only stuck with it because I've used it for years, used to be ok. So now any useful pics I've posted over the years and my build thread pics have gone. So annoyed. I can't see anyone paying to use their website because it really is crap.
Anyone in the same boat? Anyone with a solution?
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Post by wannabe on Jun 29, 2017 9:24:09 GMT
I am confused. (Easily done...)
How do they know whether images you have uploaded are yours or a third party's?
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Post by atlex on Jun 29, 2017 9:39:37 GMT
migrate your photos somewhere better :-) where that is, who knows ? I host my own. fwiw.
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Post by rhyswh on Jun 29, 2017 12:12:34 GMT
I am confused. (Easily done...) How do they know whether images you have uploaded are yours or a third party's? They just mean the photo's you upload to photobucket and then host on 3rd party websites such as forums. how do you host your own photos? |
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Post by rhyswh on Jun 29, 2017 12:19:08 GMT
Just realised it's only some images that this has happened to!
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Post by Horney on Jun 29, 2017 13:44:46 GMT
This is bonkers. Even Flickr don't charge that much for their pro service.
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Post by myothercarsa2cv on Jun 29, 2017 13:55:30 GMT
I upload pics through tapatalk. All my photos are stored on Dropbox, although Flickr pro is a very good product too.
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Post by wannabe on Jun 29, 2017 14:10:27 GMT
If you don't need to remove a picture later, tinypic is pretty useful.
Flickr or buying use of a file hosting service is probably your best bet for long term management of your stuff!
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Post by wannabe on Jun 29, 2017 14:11:54 GMT
I am confused. (Easily done...) How do they know whether images you have uploaded are yours or a third party's? They just mean the photo's you upload to photobucket and then host on 3rd party websites such as forums.
WTF is the point of uploading photos if you're not posting them somewhere? Are they saying you must setup and identify (to them) your own personal website, so they can then check that everything you've uploaded to PB is linked to there only??
Retarded.
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Post by rhyswh on Jun 29, 2017 15:29:45 GMT
It's just a way of increasing the whole advertisement revenue they're clearly interested in (if you visit the site you'll see what I mean). I can post a link to the photo so it would direct you to their website where, as a non paying customer (or if you are and just not logged in), you will be bombarded with so many adverts you'll probably never see my photo lol
The only way to have the image show up on a forum is to pay them $399.99! So for them it's a win win.......unless everyone just stops using them completely and they get no money! Fingers crossed it's the later!
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Post by jackyboy on Jun 29, 2017 17:22:27 GMT
Canoeing adverts are doing my nut
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Post by chris71 on Jun 29, 2017 18:21:28 GMT
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Post by tsp on Jun 29, 2017 20:09:08 GMT
They can do one. Wankers. I tried for half hour today to load a photo. Didn't win an iPad either  |
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Post by martiny on Jun 29, 2017 20:13:39 GMT
FFS. That's borked every photo I ever posted on Nutz. Unless "3rd party hosting has been temporarily disabled" means very temporarily indeed, I think photobucket just hammered the final nail in their own coffin.
I'm still having trouble getting my head round the idea that this is real. I mean seriously, they want $399 per year just to serve a few pics to forums once in a while? They can, of course, do one. If they can't make money from the blizzard of adverts they cripple their site with, well stuff 'em. They're not the only hosting site in the universe.
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Post by martiny on Jun 29, 2017 22:11:04 GMT
How much do you bet they turn 3rd party sharing back on in a few days, but with advertising added to your photos?
They reserve the right to do that in the T+Cs.
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