By vout
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:28 pm
I noticed in the last few days that many images on this forum have been deleted and replaced with a photobucket warning to 'upgrade your account'. A quick Google shows that this is a widespread problem as Photobucket have just changed their terms of service and no longer allow free hotlinking. Instead they now want users to pay $400/year for this service! The problem is that they gave no notice to users and hid this info way down in the small print of their new terms of service.
This is a problem for forums like this that have a lot of technical info with images, Photobucket have wiped out years of useful resources (not just here but in forums worldwide) in an instant and there has been a huge backlash against it.
So I guess this is just a headsup - don't use Photobucket.
This is a problem for forums like this that have a lot of technical info with images, Photobucket have wiped out years of useful resources (not just here but in forums worldwide) in an instant and there has been a huge backlash against it.
So I guess this is just a headsup - don't use Photobucket.