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Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Thanks Ian.

A great shame.

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Hi Ruairidh,
Your link comes up with this:-

Warning: include(/mnt/den2-pri1-mnt/code/code/pb-htdocs/public/galleryd/desktop.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /code/pb-htdocs/public/galleryd/index.php on line 122

Warning: include(): Failed opening '/mnt/den2-pri1-mnt/code/code/pb-htdocs/public/galleryd/desktop.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:..:../..:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/share/php/Smarty') in /code/pb-htdocs/public/galleryd/index.php on line 122

Don't know if this is PB generated or Firefox.

Edit: On a second attempt, it comes up with the ransom note!

Location: Bonnie Galloway

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Thanks Dave.

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Ruairidh Dunford
Thanks Ian - I am still able to view other's PB photos but I suspect, going by the shared experiences on here, this too will stop for me in the very near future.

Can you please let me know if you can view this?

http://s123.photobucket.com/user/Ruairidhdunford/media/FC7054F9-B8FB-4E8E-8EFF-7B1A64F9D1EC_zpssf4bibwh.jpg.html


Hi Ruairdh, in short NO just the square banner asking me to update.

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Same for me R, just get the same grey square 'please update your account' banner - Apple Mac running Safari 10.1.1

Jeff.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Same here, although I can see all your thumbnails just not allowed to view the pictures full size. Photobucket now seem to be asking for feed back so I gave them some

Location: NZ

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

R,

All I get is-

"Please update your account to enable third party hosting"

Cheers, Tony.

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Thanks for trying guys.

Such a shame as the photos shared were hugely helpful in so many ways.

Don't delete your PB account or photos, please. A way may be found.

Looking through my albums I can see almost all were uploaded from files on my own computers so there is no need for me to download them - just such a shame that all the links are lost, a real shame.

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Ruairidh,
Greed knows no bounds.
I read somewhere that PB has been taken over, so if true, then the new accountants just see $$$ winging their way from the ransom they have imposed on their users.
Puts them on a par with Ransomware now!
I would think they are now on the receiving end of the Internet's wrath.

Geoff - I've switched to Postimage.

Location: South Nordolk - Next to Suffolk

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Ruairidh Dunford
Thanks for trying guys.

Such a shame as the photos shared were hugely helpful in so many ways.

Don't delete your PB account or photos, please. A way may be found.

Looking through my albums I can see almost all were uploaded from files on my own computers so there is no need for me to download them - just such a shame that all the links are lost, a real shame.


I've never used PB, always staying with Flickr, so my photos are still visible on this and other sites. Of course, there's nothing to say Flickr won't go down the same route as PB at some time in the future so that could, potentially, change. Like Ruairidh, all my photos of Flickr have been uploaded from my PC so if that was to happen then I'd still have them but I have had a complete, terminal, computer crash in the distant past that did result in the loss of some photos and so now I regularly back up my important documents and my photos to an external hard drive just in case. Of course, the hard drive might not survive a fire but a hard copy photograph album would be similarly at risk. You can only do so much!!

Steve

Location: North Yorkshire

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

We're not the only ones..........

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/4/15919224/photobucket-broken-images-amazon-ebay-etsy-paid-update

Jeff.

Location: Almost but not quite, the far North East of England

Re: Photobucket warning! $399/year charge!

Just found this on the Historic Military Vehicle Forum:-

My recommendation to anybody who has photos stored with them is download all your photos and save them to your computer. Will bet anyone (one stale donut) that within one year Photobucket will be gone.

Location: Oxfordshire