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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2017, 12:34:33 PM »
Sigh... apparently Amazon Prime photospace won't give you clean image file links that end in .gpg .gif etc. so they can be rendered with IMG tags.

Imgur is off the list right out. They say in their terms of service that using them for linking to forum posts violates their TOS, even though everyone does it. And Imgur has been quietly engaging in SJW fights with various right wing and gun boards, so you have to add an extension or monkey with your browser's HTTP referrer settings to prevent them from seeing the website they've banned.

I guess Flickr is next...
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2017, 12:59:16 PM »
Sigh... apparently Amazon Prime photospace won't give you clean image file links that end in .gpg .gif etc. so they can be rendered with IMG tags.

Imgur is off the list right out. They say in their terms of service that using them for linking to forum posts violates their TOS, even though everyone does it. And Imgur has been quietly engaging in SJW fights with various right wing and gun boards, so you have to add an extension or monkey with your browser's HTTP referrer settings to prevent them from seeing the website they've banned.

I guess Flickr is next...
I know a photographer who likes and uses Smugmug.  I don't know anything about their plans, but they're chatting up angry customers in PhotoBucket's Twitter feed.
Trying to host this off of Amazon Photos:

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2017, 02:06:55 PM »
I've decided the best way to get revenge on photobucket and their terrible website is to leave all my hotlinks in place so they're still costing them money.

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2017, 02:17:12 PM »
Trying again...



Nope...

This?

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2017, 02:18:57 PM »
I've decided the best way to get revenge on photobucket and their terrible website is to leave all my hotlinks in place so they're still costing them money.

Yes, I am petty.

A friend told me to do the same thing. The problem is that the images are still on their server, so they can still get hits to them from other people's Internet searches, and they can still rent or sell your photos as long as they stay on the Photobucket site. I've considered it, and my decision is that when I've gotten settled on an alternate hosting site, I'll delete my images and delete my account.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #30 on: July 13, 2017, 02:19:53 PM »
Where do I get the raw AWS hosted link, and not the one routed through amazon.com/photos?  ???

Now?



Well that was a pain in the ass.  :P
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #31 on: July 13, 2017, 02:24:06 PM »
Is this

A result of that?

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http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=51600.0

Exactly.  I've been getting nasty emails from them over it.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2017, 04:41:07 PM »
Our Boy Scout Troop has a Shutterfly account.  Adults post pictures from the Outings, anyone with the Troop can view them, and we only use a couple of them for our Bi-Annual Courts of Honor brochure.

Other than that don't know much about it.

My Photography skills consist of "Oh, that would have been a great picture..."  Then me grabbing my phone after the moment has passed..
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2017, 04:55:16 PM »
And yet another operation run by whiz kids with MBAs has initiated a self-immolation protocol.
I've been pulling stuff off that I don't have a backup of handy for a few days now.
Once I'm done I'll send them a FU note and delete the account.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #34 on: July 13, 2017, 05:00:49 PM »
well, I knew nothing other than I couldn't get it to work for an upload the other day. Now I guess I know why.
Just ran through and salvaged what I wanted, then deleted my account and the app along with a message that asked them if they knew they had just destroyed themselves.

*shrug* I guess I have to figure out another hosting site. I'll probably use the Amazon.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #35 on: July 13, 2017, 05:07:34 PM »
I went through my PB account when I got the email a week ago, pulled everything down that I didn't already have, deleted the rest, and the only pic left on my account is a copy of this

Thanks, I did the same.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #36 on: July 13, 2017, 05:08:22 PM »
I'm looking at www.freeimagehosting.net . No decision yet, so I'm not "recommending" it. But it appears promising.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #37 on: July 13, 2017, 05:16:34 PM »
I went through my PB account when I got the email a week ago, pulled everything down that I didn't already have, deleted the rest, and the only pic left on my account is a copy of this

Ha! Whew!  Saved that one in time.

I don't use a hosting site, just attachments and third-party I M G links.  I expect a few of those will go away.
« Last Edit: July 13, 2017, 05:33:18 PM by 230RN »

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #38 on: July 13, 2017, 05:25:00 PM »
Testing google drive, testing

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #39 on: July 13, 2017, 08:12:40 PM »
My links to PB just started this nonsense this evening while logged into APS. No notification email, however. Checked back several weeks on the account they would have used.
I'll have to clean out my account it looks like.  It may be pretty easy, though, as I still have originals of anything important.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #40 on: July 13, 2017, 08:25:12 PM »
 :facepalm:

Photobucket has been going downhill for a while. The interface has become way too script-heavy over the last 5 years or so, and as a result is a PITA to use. The only reason I kept using them was because I had so damn many images uploaded to it that it would have been a pain in the ass to abandon and start over.

I guess they just made the decision for me.

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #41 on: July 13, 2017, 08:54:08 PM »
For linking images on forums and stuff where the images are fully accessible to the public, I just have a throwaway yahoo account and use Flickr. For general sending to family and online storage, I've been using Google, but need to check into Amazon Prime.

One thing  I don't like about Google, is it keeps turning on synch on my phone, even after I have turned it off, which often makes my gallery on the phone lag.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #42 on: July 13, 2017, 09:35:38 PM »
:facepalm:

Photobucket has been going downhill for a while. The interface has become way too script-heavy over the last 5 years or so, and as a result is a PITA to use. The only reason I kept using them was because I had so damn many images uploaded to it that it would have been a pain in the ass to abandon and start over.

I guess they just made the decision for me.

Sayonara, pendejos.

Same here. I just finished deleting my account after pulling down a few dozen older pics I wasn't sure I had a readily accessible local copy of.
I let them know why in the comment box, not that I expect anyone will ever read it or care if they do.

Photobucket can sucket.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #43 on: July 13, 2017, 09:43:14 PM »
Just found this

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/photobucket-users-upset-over-dollar400-ransom/ar-BBDOnaq

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The Denver-based service was founded in 2003. The company says it has more than 100 million users.

I wonder what the current number of users really is after they shot them selves in the crank.

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #44 on: July 14, 2017, 08:13:13 AM »
FUphotobucket by lmmiers, on Flickr
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #45 on: July 14, 2017, 08:46:46 AM »
Went looking for a pic someone here posted, to inject into a Book of Faces discussion thread.  Nope, gone.  <scowl>
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #46 on: July 14, 2017, 11:01:32 AM »
Yep - this weekend I'm getting off PB.  Their interface has been nearly unusable for quite some time.

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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #47 on: July 14, 2017, 11:54:23 AM »
Yep - this weekend I'm getting off PB.  Their interface has been nearly unusable for quite some time.

At some point, for some reason, their navigation broke in Linux Firefox.  Getting a direct url to a jpg became an excercise in frustration.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #48 on: July 14, 2017, 12:57:13 PM »
Sigh... apparently Amazon Prime photospace won't give you clean image file links that end in .gpg .gif etc. so they can be rendered with IMG tags.

Imgur is off the list right out. They say in their terms of service that using them for linking to forum posts violates their TOS, even though everyone does it. And Imgur has been quietly engaging in SJW fights with various right wing and gun boards, so you have to add an extension or monkey with your browser's HTTP referrer settings to prevent them from seeing the website they've banned.

I guess Flickr is next...

Yeah, they don't have a clean policy on the matter. As long as it doesn't come to their attention, they don't care. It's not a bastion of SJW's but some of the staff clearly lean that direction. They're based on SF, so SJW is their version of "center left". But likely someone in the management likes money more than ideology, so they keep it as invisible as possible. They shadowbanned trigglypuff for a while.

I link off my own server, but I might be looking for a different service myself. I have a business google account, I assume they have some solution. They don't just throw in the kitchen sink, they throw in an entire industrial kitchen's worth of stuff for $5.
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Re: F off, photobucket
« Reply #49 on: July 14, 2017, 05:51:16 PM »
Testing Google Photos



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