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photobucket holding almost all free hotlinked images ransom for $400
Køtt:
good thing i don't use photobucket at all lol
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LeetZero:
Photobucket: Upload images - 100gb for $100 (no hotlinking) / 500gb for $400 + hotlinking
Dropbox: Upload whatlovingever - 1tb for $100
Who the forget in their right mind would choose Photobucket. Photobucket is a disgusting joke at this point.
So even if you do for some inexplicable reason pay that mindboggling price, you might still be limited if Photobucket decides to screw you over.
Shift Kitty:
Dropbox isn't a good idea either. They will eventually stop you from hotlinking or letting others download. It's meant to be a syncing service, not a file upload service.
I don't know what's worse though. That there's enough people still using photobucket so that this news gets spread around and people are shocked, despite that it's been going down a hole for many years now.
Or that I've seen people still hotlinking photobucket images, successfully, as if they paid.
Edit: oml, it's hilarious. There's OTHER image hosting sites responding to people on photobucket's posts. They're milking this moment.
Tactical Nuke:
immmmmmmmmgurrrrrrrrrrrrrr
siba²:
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=profile;u=146512;sa=showPosts
That's a lot of advertisement for an 'upgrade' that has an absurdly low chance of convincing anyone besides their biggest users to pay up.
Perhaps they knew these links were hotlinked all over the internet, and therefore no matter how ridiculous the deal seemed, someone was going to be convinced.