Photobucket Snaps: No Hotlinking (img tags) and Subscriptions Are Now $400/year

[pentium]

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[quote]Photobucket, which is owned by Fox Interactive Media, is an image storage site. It provides the facility to store photos and other images, allows users to create many albums and sub-albums, and provides links so that you can either direct friends to look at your photos, or embed those images into other websites, blogs and forums. [/quote]
[quote]However, they recently changed their terms and conditions with no prior announcement. With the lower levels of subscription (my basic paid level has been abandoned for more expensive models) they have eliminated the ability to embed images elsewhere - something which they erroneously refer to as Third Party Hosting). With the lowest level of subscription they don't even allow linking, so it is just a place to store photos as a back-up from your own computer. What they call Third Party Hosting, embedding images in another place, will now cost US$399.99 - per annum![/quote]

[quote]If you don't have a copy of your PB images stored elsewhere, it's simple to download the entire library as a .zip file. Well, simple if you haven't yet been blackmailed and been locked out.[/quote]

[url=http://blog.norphil.co.uk/2017/06/photobucket-alert-new-sort-of-ransom.html]**SOURCE**[/url]
[url=http://blog.norphil.co.uk/2017/06/photobucket-alert-new-sort-of-ransom.html]**Second source, cuz blog piece**[/url]
[url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet]**Also PCmag. Watch out for sound ads*[/url]

My account is completely backed up but this goes beyond what I feared. Almost 15 years of archived and hosted images are on the edge of disappearing because I'm not paying basically $40/month. I can rehost them but the links are broken for good.

[Download]

I don't even know how a paid photo hosting site can compete when you have free Deviantart and Imgur.

[redBadger]

[QUOTE=download;52417915]I don't even know how a paid photo hosting site can compete when you have free Deviantart and Imgur.[/QUOTE]

Don't know much about deviant, but doesn't imgur have some nasty compression?

[Spazi]

Puzzling that they still even exist. Do they still enforce image size and quality limits too?

[source]

Photobucket is fucking dogshit, idk why people use it still

[chipsnapper]

Nobody really has an excuse to use it anymore.

Don't worry, Imgur will be like this in time.

[LordMoldyButt]

I use Cubeupload (for most stuff) and Imgur. Honestly surprised people still use photobucket

[Scot]

[QUOTE=redBadger;52417936]Don't know much about deviant, but doesn't imgur have some nasty compression?[/QUOTE]

Not only does imgur horribly compress your images but recently I've noticed a shit ton of images hosted there that have been deleted.

If you want to store images as a personal backup use Flickr, they give you 1TB free and are unlikely to fuck you over. If you want to share images use cubeupload, just as easy as imgur but zero compression and no faux-reddit shite.

[pentium]

[QUOTE=sourcegamer101;52417939]Photobucket is fucking dogshit, idk why people use it still[/QUOTE]

Because it was the last host that didn't delete your shit after a period of time?
I don't know why Imgur keeps being suggested because they're no better for doing this, plus they are walking the same path ATM. All the other image hosts I've also see so far have some deal breaking thing that simply aren't worth it. Or you know, they only exist for six months.

[Big Bob]

[QUOTE=Scot;52417953]Not only does imgur horribly compress your images but recently I've noticed a shit ton of images hosted there that have been deleted.

If you want to store images as a personal backup use Flickr, they give you 1TB free and are unlikely to fuck you over. If you want to share images use cubeupload, just as easy as imgur but zero compression and no faux-reddit shite.[/QUOTE]Imgur only ruins it if you upload something without being logged in, if you're a member the pics come out fine.

[AK'z]

photobucket is classic.

but it's time for it to die.

[Milktree]

I remember when everyone here used filesmelt

[laserpanda]

I've used imgur instead for the last several years, but outs going downhill fast too as they try to turn it into a reddit style photo sharing site rather than a file host.

I should probably back up my photobucket though. It has pictures from mods and maps I made 15 years ago.

[kaze4159]

[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;52417949]Nobody really has an excuse to use it anymore.

Don't worry, Imgur will be like this in time.[/QUOTE]

It's already happening, a couple weeks ago you couldn't directly view some images without being redirected to the site, now they're just straight up 404ing

[Thelurker1234]

All of these websites just seem to turn to shit (photobucket, imgur) or straight-up die (niggaupload RIP.)

I actually would highly recommend people look at using google or amazon, they aren't difficult to use and they're actually pretty inexpensive. Depends on your use case though, like sharing shit on FP and stuff would be great with them, if you only something like sharex to send stuff to your friends, you'll pay a couple of cents a month. But if you expect like a group of images to be accessed a lot (like thousands/tens of thousands of times) you might want to save yourself the money and use something else.

[AutismoPiggo]

I'd highlly recommend Cubeupload, wduwant, vgy.me and that one that Reagy owns however when you open it you'll want to fucking throttle the smug anime staring at you

[Ott]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52418116]All of these websites just seem to turn to shit (photobucket, imgur) or straight-up die (niggaupload RIP.)

I actually would highly recommend people look at using google or amazon, they aren't difficult to use and they're actually pretty inexpensive. Depends on your use case though, like sharing shit on FP and stuff would be great with them, if you only something like sharex to send stuff to your friends, you'll pay a couple of cents a month. But if you expect like a group of images to be accessed a lot (like thousands/tens of thousands of times) you might want to save yourself the money and use something else.[/QUOTE]

Google allows hotlinking?

[Talvy]

I don't see the issue with imgur when you're logged in, it has always worked for me.

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=Ott;52418151]Google allows hotlinking?[/QUOTE]
I'm talking about google cloud specifically. not drive, if that's what you're asking. With this you'd be serving straight http urls so of course hotlinking would work.
[URL]https://cloud.google.com/cdn/[/URL]
it'd be this paired with google cloud storage.

To my knowledge google is more expensive than amazon s3 tho.

[QUOTE=AutismoPiggo;52418144]I'd highlly recommend Cubeupload, wduwant, vgy.me and that one that [B]Reagy[/B] owns however when you open it you'll want to fucking throttle the smug anime staring at you[/QUOTE]

And when they get a 404 they'll have to watch a foxgirl get [URL="http://horobox.co.uk/404.gif"]fucked in the ass[/URL]! (obvious nsfw warning)

[Ott]

A direct image host is like YouTube: it isn't sustainable. We're going to need a parent company with entirely too much money to keep one running without it turning to shit.

[Reagy]

[QUOTE=AutismoPiggo;52418144]I'd highlly recommend Cubeupload, wduwant, vgy.me and that one that Reagy owns however when you open it you'll want to fucking throttle the smug anime staring at you[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52418169]And when they get a 404 they'll have to watch a foxgirl get [URL="http://horobox.co.uk/404.gif"]fucked in the ass[/URL]! (obvious nsfw warning)[/QUOTE]

[img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/reag/2017-06-30_17-59-23.png[/img]

Not surprised though that this happened but damn that's really drastic, they've basically just nailed the coffin for the site now.

[FordLord]

[QUOTE=Talvy;52418159]I don't see the issue with imgur when you're logged in, it has always worked for me.[/QUOTE]

I've never had compression issues, or issues with pictures being deleted.
I'm a member as well.

[Atsuimono]

I just use discord to host my images

[lektro]

Photobucket was shit 10 years ago, I almost get mad when I see a link to it today

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52418116]All of these websites just seem to turn to shit (photobucket, imgur) or straight-up die (niggaupload RIP.)

I actually would highly recommend people look at using google or amazon, they aren't difficult to use and they're actually pretty inexpensive. Depends on your use case though, like sharing shit on FP and stuff would be great with them, if you only something like sharex to send stuff to your friends, you'll pay a couple of cents a month. But if you expect like a group of images to be accessed a lot (like thousands/tens of thousands of times) you might want to save yourself the money and use something else.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I dunno how people expect companies to provide free image hosting (with hotlinking) and not eventually turn to shit once legacy costs start to raise, and venture capital starts drying up.

[Slashed Out]

imageshack/photobucket law:

for each commercial image sharing host, the probability of it restricting uploads or hotlinking beyond sane limits or doing something equally bizzare approaches 1 with the passage of time

[Keychain]

Imageshack and Photobucket are classic. Then niggaupload and jesusfuck.me reigned supreme. Now I have to use Imgur cuz there's not much else.

[TFA]

Got a $2.5/month vps with 20gb of storage, $6/year domain. Comes out to $36 a year for a service much better than anything photobucket can offer, + I can upload files too.

[Laughing Stock]

Am I horribly blind or are you guys exaggerating the compression on imgur? I've been uploading files without an issue so far, and I haven't noticed any compression.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/PvlLUZL.png[/img]
maybe this stops it.

[ubersoldier]

[QUOTE=laserpanda;52418034]... it into a reddit style photo sharing site rather than a file host.[/QUOTE]

It was always meant to be a sharing site though? That was and still is Imgurs intended purpose. It certainly could be used as a personal image backup/host if someone wanted to for whatever reason, but it was never created for that. It was also [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/]built almost entirely for reddits own use[/url], so of course it's going to go the same way.