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Damn them.

They want 399 USD to host your pics now.

There wasn't any warning. And the price is rediculous

Half the pics on e21 net are now not available!


[img]http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a285/nasbucket/forumsig.jpg[/img]
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Those bastards saw the news about ransomeware and decided that that must be a great businessmodel. So they made 3th party linking unavailable, unless customers pay 400 USD a year. So, since they have been around the provide you with the [img] link so you can upload the photos on their site and you put them on a forum or so. And when everyone has put their photos in forums, they kill the links.

For me it means after 8 years of membership and the uploading of some 3500 pics on different forums that all my work is gone. The pics are still on photobucket, but the links are broken. And wil not pay. Fcuk 'em.

But I am to freakin' stubborn to just roll over and die. I will upload my pics again and will repair the links on two forums and some 8 topics.

Oh and of course, I hope to see the day that photobucket goes belly up. Bastards.
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If they wanted to charge, they should have done so for pics from this point forward, but when you offer a service that people have taken up for well over a decade in some instances (13 years for me) and there are thousands of pics of mine across umpteen forums, it's a monumental dick move.

The thought of rehosting and reinserting pics in all these forums is too much to think about.
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Just for doing this and taking years of work offline, crippling many forums including ours, without any announcement, that only makes that I'm willing to pay any other party more than this. No way they're ever getting a cent from me!
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This could be a great opportunity for some enterprising individual to set up a competing business to appeal to forum users all over the world who will have felt this impact.
Charge perhaps but a fair sum and offer reassurances that nothing like this will happen.
The search function and the ability to learn from the experience of others will be greatly impacted
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Fixes for Chrome and Firefox now. Tested on Firefox and works well! Both are linked below.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ucket-fix/
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Great success!!
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The add-on is unavailable now. Also, I would recommend Imgur as the best alternative to Photobucket.
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Add on is not needed anymore.
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