Years ago I made a PB account, so I could share photos on the websites that did not hae an option for loading directly to onto them. How many millions did the same thing?
Basically any Photo I uploaded was to share publically, on the thread/ forum I was wanting to share with. I was not really keen on those images showing up in a google search but Oh well.
In the last year PB has been torturous to use. Slow uploads, not registering photos that took forever to upload, and IF i were to disable Ad blocker and try to use it, then it would lock up my computer.
Now they want people to pay for such horrid service? If the ads were not so overwhelming, I would have allowed them. If the service was actually able to be used without cursing at the format, the ads, the lockups, then perhaps I would consider a modest fee to continue to have the pics I've posted to many forums, since 2009, still accessible.
But 40 bucks a month? No chance. Would never ever even contemplate it.
There are now so many useful threads all over the net, without pictures. Is this the modern equivalent of the loss of the Alexandria library, or when Spanish priests burned every book the Maya had compiled? How much was forever lost. Due to ignorance and arrogance on levels unmatched, until perhaps now.
Screw the Photobucket decision, Screw them. It is a contemptible move, even if fully within their rights to do so. It is a shamless money grab. I am really more irritated than I should be about this, but I kind of view it as similar to those Pharma companies that decided that a drug that cost 3 dollars to make for one dose, should cost 5,000 dollars and people should have to either go into considerable debt, wipe put their life savings, or let their loved ones die.
Giant middle finger to them.
I have gone to considerable effort over the years to share pictures here and on other forums, with PB being the image host. They are effectively holding those threads for ransom for a ridiculous sum.
I deleted my account there. I did not even bother dealing with downloading what I had saved over there during the last 8 years. Not worth the effort or the slow annoying website format.
So many threads are now worse than useless, because of a few fat cats who wanted to be fatter.
It is within everybodys right to behave contemptibly. I avoid such people. And I hope the decision makers at PB get an incurable itch in their most unpleasant regions that cannot be mitigated in any way.