Photobucket new terms

[Cagey]

Photobucket says photo-f**k-it, starts off-site image shakedown
No more freeloading graphics, it wants its $400-a-year cut
By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 30 Jun 2017 at 22:56

Photobucket is cracking down on people embedding on third-party websites images it hosts, until now, for free.

The photo-slinging internet elder now says that anyone who wants to use its service to display photos it hosts on other pages – such as signature banners in forum posts – will now need to open up their wallets and plop down $399.99 a year for a subscription plan.

The new policy will be particularly annoying to longtime users who have relied on Photobucket's 14-year-old service to host the images they use to place images on forums or in blog posts.

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[Cagey]

From the Photobucket site...

What is 3rd party hosting?

Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website.

For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, blog, etc. is 3rd party hosting.

Benefits of Photobucket’s 3rd Party Hosting

a) Easy to Use – Upload a photo from any device and copy the embed code with one click to host a photo with no development or technical knowledge required
b) Competitive, fixed pricing
c) Offers the only unlimited 3rd party hosting plan (Commercial and Personal
Use)

To upgrade your account or view our competitive subscription plans, click here.

So, apparently, it's not absolutely $400, the price varies depending on how much space you need. But, the smallest hit would be for 52GB of space at $60/yr.

 

[Fat Pete]

...And the photos I posted the other day of Big Steve's tele parts were linked from photobucket...

Just a matter of time I'm afraid...

 

[dmraco]

This sucks.  I must have 500+ photos housed there

 

[Cagey]

Sorry - In the process of trying to split this topic off a build topic and merge it with Tony's existing thread on this topic, we've somehow ended up with two threads on the same topic.