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Devon-Rover

Member Since: 22 Jan 2015
Location: South Devon
Posts: 917

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Aintree Green

Oddly I discovered their Banditry when looking at oddly Rustproofing post's.

If you like me Checked out MilersS3 post on the forum about the Bilthamber Dynax rustproofing he did on his 110 all the pictures have gone http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic27877.html

After some digging I discovered they have decided to Remove the privilege of Third party hosting of all free and basic photobucket accounts. You now have to pay $399 dollars for the privilege by having their Plus 500 account.

This was done on the 28th as an update to their TOU shows and I quote

Quote:
Free account : Each individual Member gets one free account that provides 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original photo files, or videos under 10min. The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting. If a free account Member exceeds their Content Limit, their account will be immediately suspended and they will need to become a “Paying Member” (defined below) in order to continue accessing their account. You can upgrade to a Plus account at any time.

30th Jun 2017 5:49pm

Procta

Member Since: 03 Dec 2016
Location: Sunderland
Posts: 5183

I stopped using photobucket, due to the amount of popups and adds that were on there, in fact I think a few were viruses too, I remember my Anti virus going nuts at one point. All my threads now on other forums will be lost now sadly. I switched to a different photo hosting when I became a member on here, so luckily nothing on here is effected. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it!

30th Jun 2017 7:44pm

xpertoftheseas

Member Since: 05 Jan 2016
Location: Salisbury, Wilts
Posts: 164

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Aintree Green

This story has been picked up by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668

This is a classic "how to commit corporate suicide", much like United Airlines. Bye bye PhotoBucket. Cannot really see how you are going to spin your way out of this PR nightmare.

If we are honest anyway, the amount of ads they had was way over the top. Even if you look at the Terms of Service, two pop up adverts appear.

Off to buy Imgur stock now.... My 10th Land Rover, but my first Defender.

5th Jul 2017 7:34am

mse

Member Since: 06 Apr 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 5038

2016 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Scotia Grey

LandRoverAnorak wrote:
mse wrote:
I dont know why anyone would want to give others control of their stuff like this type of cloud activity...but then i dont get the obsession with much of the social media type stuff!

It's (or was) just a convenient place to host pictures for use on forums like this. They'd be a poorer place if there was nothing to look at

I host pictures myself, or on the forum direct? Mike

5th Jul 2017 9:14pm

LandRoverAnorak

Member Since: 17 Jul 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 11324

That's great for you and as it happens I'm now moving some stuff onto here direct, but those solutions clearly won't suit everybody. Regardless though, my comment was more of a response to yours about social media, which seemed a bit strange as Photobucket isn't but this forum where we're discussing it is

Darren

110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak

"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia

6th Jul 2017 8:03am

mse

Member Since: 06 Apr 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 5038

I dont get the obsession with social media and sharing everything with everyone - especially twitter etc.

everyone can upload photos to martins sites and always have been able to...and ive been around for a LONG time Mike

6th Jul 2017 3:22pm

Butchers Boy

Member Since: 10 Jan 2016
Location: Essex
Posts: 426

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Stornoway Grey

I'm uploading direct from my iPhone now and to be honest it's a lot easier! Like Procta mentioned in and earlier posting there are too many adds and popups now anyway. I had to do a reset on my iPad a week ago after all the popups crashed Safari. I wouldn't go back even if they did reverse their idea and made it free again... nuts to them! 2010 Defender 90 HT

The longer I live..... The better I was!

12th Jul 2017 10:54am

CarMan

Member Since: 29 Nov 2010
Location: Cotswolds
Posts: 1862

I don't have that many pics on here admittedly but I am determined to replace as many as I can - so there Photobucket of

Rob

1993 200tdi 90 hard-top
1998 300tdi 90 soft-top
2016 2.2 XS 90 hard-top (sold)

21st Jul 2017 7:29pm

gilarion

Member Since: 05 Dec 2013
Location: Wales
Posts: 5111

2007 Defender 90 Other CSW Trident Green

When and if I pay, never I say. I think Photobucket are relying on the adage one born every minute.

For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..

http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1

21st Jul 2017 9:20pm

DSB

Member Since: 02 Mar 2014
Location: Rutland
Posts: 55

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Indus Silver

All my old posts had pictures linked to photobucket, but the latest were direct from my lap tops pictures folder which works well. So, I'll now close my photobucket account (if its possible to do so)

28th Jul 2017 8:27am

LandRoverAnorak

Member Since: 17 Jul 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 11324

It is. You have to do a bit of digging in the settings but there is an option to close the account completely. Darren

110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak

"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia

28th Jul 2017 8:31am

DSB

Member Since: 02 Mar 2014
Location: Rutland
Posts: 55

Found the delete account and sent a message that it was 3rd party hosting charges

28th Jul 2017 10:18am

Procta

Member Since: 03 Dec 2016
Location: Sunderland
Posts: 5183

I logged onto mine, and tried to download all my photos so that I can log back on to the metro owners club and re host them, some of my photos were how to guides for the owners club.
Anyway I had some right trouble trying to down load them, I gave up in the end, but I will have another shot so that I can just close the account, mind since I have had a tweak of the setting about email, I haven't had as much spam now. I thought it was facebook, but it looks like it was photobucket. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it!

29th Jul 2017 12:13am

hafman

Member Since: 28 Mar 2017
Location: W Sussex
Posts: 81

I also tried to download all of my images on Photobucket, but the site kept stalling and it made no progress. In the end I just gave up and deleted all of the images BEFORE I closed my account.

29th Jul 2017 8:25am

Procta

Member Since: 03 Dec 2016
Location: Sunderland
Posts: 5183

so it sounds like they holding everyone's photos to ransom,

cheeky

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29th Jul 2017 12:31pm

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