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Started by: jo anne (34699) 

My email from Photobucket last night: "Some features on your account will be disabled"

WE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN USING PHOTOBUCKET FOR 3RD PARTY HOSTING*

PLEASE UPGRADE TO A PLUS 500 PLAN.

*3rd party hosting is the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website

All photobucket images on WW now look like this:



To unlock this previously free feature, members must now pay $399 per year.

I've looked to find there's an outcry online and the sudden change described as being held to ransom. BBC Technology

Started: 7th Jul 2017 at 07:59
Last edited by jo anne: 7th Jul 2017 at 08:00:51

Posted by: Tommy Two Stroke (15202)

My pictures on photobucket were blocked just over a week ago, with that ransom demand and seeing that I have spent over 10 years filling up my photobucket accounts with utter crap, there is no way I am paying for that, the robbing bar stewards ...

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 08:13

Posted by: Anne (4384) 

I can understand wanting a payment from people buying/selling as a business but not for casual and blog users. Still, if they believe money can be made......

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 08:20

Posted by: dougie (5019) 

Just testing a photo upload from my Photobucket album,to see if it still lets me upload

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 10:14

Posted by: jo anne (34699) 

So far so good, Dougie, but Photobucket could well be onto you soon! I successfully uploaded a photo to WW yesterday morning and got the email last night.

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 11:22

Posted by: peter48 (2751)

Get yourself onto Flickr Joanne
No problem there

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 11:53

Posted by: mindar (1334)

Thinking the same myself peter

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 19:34

Posted by: jo anne (34699) 

Thanks, Peter.

Replied: 7th Jul 2017 at 21:06

 

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