1987Comanche Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 I just got back from vacation and found that all my photos are jacked too :doh: . :fs1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser54 Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 I need to check my PB account. What are they doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComancheKid45 Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Yeah, I used Photobucket in the past alot on here, sucks for my builds and such but $400 is outrageous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Yeah, I used Photobucket in the past alot on here, sucks for my builds and such but $400 is outrageous! $400 says: "We don't want to be in this 3rd party photo hosting business - there is no way we can make any money. Please take your pictures and GO AWAY!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeep Driver Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 You all are free to create your own website, host your own photos. I owned/created two websites, gripsnstocks.com and jeepseekers.com The idea behind jeepseekers was to have a Jeep specific trading source, below is a vid ad that I did for someone here. I thought it was a good idea, apparently, no one else did. Plenty of hosting sites out there, I used Hyperstreet...............godaddy sucks @$$. Use your name, joeblow.com -I think I was paying about $17 per mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a bum with money Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I've been going through some of the diy forums and noticed there are no pics, just a notice badge. I've never used photobucket so I'm not sure what's up. Seems they want money to use there service. Are the photos lost Forever? Bryce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Unless Photobucket either goes back on their "give us $400 a year to host pics" decision or the owner of the pics manually moves them to a better host, they're gone. You can see them if you right click on them and open them in a new tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Wew lads; seems I've got a lot of work to do along with many others. It's so nice living in the digital age... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neohic Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I am seriously dreading PB dropping me. I literally have thousands of pictures all over the interwebs. Is there any warnings they give? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellaheep Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 What's a warning gonna do for you? They'll keep your photos in your account, they just won't be linked anymore. It's simple extortion. Wanna keep the hosting they've been providing? Pony up $399/yr. No ifs, ands or buts. Photobucket posted a response to several angry blog posts on their website citing the changing trend in advertising based web business. They're blaming it on their service being overrun by ad blocker software keeping them from getting paid for the advertising hits they're not getting now. Not unlike having a DVR and fast forwarding through the commercials. It's why we're seeing product placement/plugs in our shows now. If they'd have told me it'd be $50, even $100 / year to keep up the unlimited hosting service, I'd pay it. But $400? That's robbery. The public damage this has done to the internet is MASSIVE. The inconvenience is MASSIVE. I sincerely hope Photobucket's revenue loss is MASSIVE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 This is why I have never liked or trusted the concept of "cloud" computing. Sure, it's convenient -- when it works, and the "cloud" is available. But once they get you hooked on "the cloud," they can change the terms of service and jack up the price at will, and you're held hostage. I agree with Yellaheep -- the damage this has done to the Internet community is incalculable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 You either use someone in the cloud as a host, or setup your own host. That's how it works. I think PB is knocking off subscribers who use ad-blocking software first. How many of you who are still able to use PB hosting are using ad-blockers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 What's a warning gonna do for you? They'll keep your photos in your account, they just won't be linked anymore. It's simple extortion. Wanna keep the hosting they've been providing? Pony up $399/yr. No ifs, ands or buts. Photobucket posted a response to several angry blog posts on their website citing the changing trend in advertising based web business. They're blaming it on their service being overrun by ad blocker software keeping them from getting paid for the advertising hits they're not getting now. Not unlike having a DVR and fast forwarding through the commercials. It's why we're seeing product placement/plugs in our shows now. If they'd have told me it'd be $50, even $100 / year to keep up the unlimited hosting service, I'd pay it. But $400? That's robbery. The public damage this has done to the internet is MASSIVE. The inconvenience is MASSIVE. I sincerely hope Photobucket's revenue loss is MASSIVE. My thoughts exactly. Screw 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody4359 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Meh, it sucks when I click on a link and there are no pics but today the world relies on the internet to makes us smart that photo bucket is probly doing us a favor. Half of my build thread doesn't work now but I'm ok with that. I never got many comments anyways. i wouldn't be suprised if more places started making you pay to post pics Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 You can see them if you right click on them and open them in a new tab. This does not work for me. I'm running Firefox as my browser, what are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Meh, it sucks when I click on a link and there are no pics but today the world relies on the internet to makes us smart that photo bucket is probly doing us a favor. Half of my build thread doesn't work now but I'm ok with that. I never got many comments anyways. i wouldn't be suprised if more places started making you pay to post pics That wouldn't surprise me, either, and it also won't surprise me if all those companies go out of business rather quickly. What they fail to grasp is that the end users have come to expect the Internet to be basically free. We all know that it costs a company money to maintain servers and to provide a service, but nobody asked them to offer us free photo hosting. They came to us and said, 'Here it is -- use it!" So we did. Then they started piling on with advertisements. Yeah, okay, the ads pay for the service, we get that. But when they piled on so many ads that they interfered with the usability of the service, the use of ad blockers became a self defense mechanism for the users. If Photobucket had not been so greedy about the way they managed the ads on their site, users wouldn't have needed ad blockers. So now Photobucket can't make [enough] money from ads, so they want to charge the end users. But the amount they decided on simply isn't reasonable. All it's going to do is drive people away. And I can't escape the thought that this is ultimately what they want -- to get rid of the pesky freeloaders (like most of us) who only have a few hundred or a few thousand images hosted under the [formerly] free service so they can devote their server space to the photo and video professionals who have far too many images hosted to even think about downloading them and moving them elsewhere. I think more people are going to start hosting their own photos. We can sign up for our own web hosting, with lots of server space, five or ten or more dedicated e-mail addresses, and technical support for creating our own, personal web site for a LOT less than $399 a year. Photobucket is just going to push more people to do that sooner than they would otherwise have done so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzimm Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 You can see them if you right click on them and open them in a new tab. This does not work for me. I'm running Firefox as my browser, what are you using? I can't see them at all on Chrome either.. I've even tried going into the code for the web page and pull the link but that didn't work either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 It used to work but it doesn't work for me either anymore. I'm using Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54bobby Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 still works. right click on the non viewable image, click open in new tab. photobucket opens up with same nonviewable tab. right click that one too and click open in new tab. then open that tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Just opening a new tab works for me on this thread. http://comancheclub.com/topic/11770-power-window-regulator-restorationrepair-on-the-cheap/ But not for some others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I don't know what you guys are using as your browser. I use Firefox. When I right click one of those blocked images, it just opens the same image in another page of the same tab. I am not offered any option to open in a new tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeep Driver Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I don't know what you guys are using as your browser. I use Firefox. When I right click one of those blocked images, it just opens the same image in another page of the same tab. I am not offered any option to open in a new tab. Firefox is rather tired now. No problems with Chrome of IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalBman Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 So, I have about 30 photos hosted with PB. Just got an email telling me i need to upgrade because i am using them for 3rd party hosting. Sooooo... They appear to be going after everyone that is using PB for 3rd party hosting regardless of the amount of stored images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 We can sign up for our own web hosting, with lots of server space, five or ten or more dedicated e-mail addresses, and technical support for creating our own, personal web site for a LOT less than $399 a year. Where? Every non-self-hosting forum in existence has taken massive hits from the PB ban and is looking for the same answer for their members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Sooooo... They appear to be going after everyone that is using PB for 3rd party hosting regardless of the amount of stored images. Yes, that is correct. One site often suggested as a replacement is imgur.com. Just found this on another forum: 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. So, imgur.com isn't an option, and Amazon Prime isn't an option. I'm still looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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