Photobucket changing their T&C's?

I have had an email this morning from photosharkbucket - they tell me that they have found out I am hosting pictures to third party websites (like this one) and that unless I pay them whatever it is per month I am in breach of their rules and so they have blocked me from being able to post pictures.....

ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DELETE ALL MY PICTURES PLEASE FROM THIS NEST OF VIPERS? Don't be silly, of course that is not where I keep them, I don't rely on any internet stuff for storage, everything is home here with me in various places. Now, if you know the tricks of how to delete everything, rather than one by one, please bear in mind I only found out I can save (bookmark) a website the other day...I simply didn't know you could do it. That is how much I know about using computer sdtuff...so instructions will have to be very simplified, but all help very welcome.

Thanks.
 
Lensflare said:
I have had an email this morning from photosharkbucket - they tell me that they have found out I am hosting pictures to third party websites (like this one) and that unless I pay them whatever it is per month I am in breach of their rules and so they have blocked me from being able to post pictures.....

ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DELETE ALL MY PICTURES PLEASE FROM THIS NEST OF VIPERS? Don't be silly, of course that is not where I keep them, I don't rely on any internet stuff for storage, everything is home here with me in various places. Now, if you know the tricks of how to delete everything, rather than one by one, please bear in mind I only found out I can save (bookmark) a website the other day...I simply didn't know you could do it. That is how much I know about using computer sdtuff...so instructions will have to be very simplified, but all help very welcome.

Thanks.
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Why not just leave your photos there as a 'dormant account'... after all, it's not your server hard drive space they are occupying is it?
 
I'm shocked anyone uses Photobucket for anything other than posting meme's or silly photoshopped images..
 
Mr Badger said:
Why not just leave your photos there as a 'dormant account'... after all, it's not your server hard drive space they are occupying is it?
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I wondered if they would hijack them.....deleting 1 by 1 at the moment. I am getting totally disillusioned with and by the entire 'internet' thing. I am lucky I suppose, that I was born into a different age, different way of thinking and completely different mindset towards society than the current money-grabbing, corrupted lifestyle that has pervaded, it would appear, every aspect of our lives. I detest the 'total technology' society, I have got sucked in to part of it, but I am realising how dangerous it is and am glad I kept most of it at arms length. I feel sorry for all those who have been completely entrapped and who entrust everything to 'The Cloud'. Stand by to have your legs lifted in time, when you are completely reliant oon it....that £10 subscription will suddenlybe £100, or you lose everything......
 
ChrisR said:
OK, so I need a bit of smart that will (a) download all the images from PB, (b) re-upload them to an alternate site and (c) fix up all the links in TP posts to the PB images! With that, I truly could say bye bye to PB.

Is such a bit of code feasible?
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Still wondering if this is a feasible option... some pseudo-code...

Code: 
login to PB;
login to NEW hosting site;
for all [pages on PB]
  for all [images in page]
    record PB image URL;
    download image;
    upload image to NEW hosting site;
    record NEW image URL
    end;
  end;
login to TP;
for all my posts
  if post contains PB image URL
    replace PB image URL with NEW image URL
    end;
  end;
logout all;

Not sure if that's right, but you get the idea maybe?

EDIT: darn it my nice spacing got eliminated... now fixed with CODE tags!
 
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Seems Photobucket have massively overestimated their value to people, It has long been a terrible website, I used to use it until a few years ago to host pictures of work in progress on the car for car forums etc, never for anything of importance. I guess someone in an office looked at some superficial data like how many thousands of images we have and thought hey, we can monetise these! Without actually realising that the majority of it was of no consequence to anyone!
 
To be honest, I'd been considering a move to Flickr for several months now so, in hindsight, I think PB have done me a favour in forcing the issue and giving me the motivation to change. It's an ill wind, as they say.
 
Dave70D said:
I gave up using PB ages ago, so I deleted my account. I only use Flickr and sometimes Imgur.
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How did you do the delted account thing please?
Did you remove your pictures first or do they die with your account - I wouldn't want to leave images there orphaned, even if they are only of rubbish - like everyone else I only used it for forum pictures.
 
Thank you. I will continue to delete my pictures though, even though I suspect photobucket will havestolen them - cynical? Me, never!!
 
Lensflare said:
like everyone else I only used it for forum pictures.
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Why?
You can link direct to the image on your PC if you want to add it to a thread on here. No need for external sites.
Or use your own personal gallery on here. Again, no need for external sites.
 
mickledore said:
Why?
You can link direct to the image on your PC if you want to add it to a thread on here. No need for external sites.
Or use your own personal gallery on here. Again, no need for external sites.
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Because 15 yearago thatwas how I was told Ihad to do it....not learned any new ways! So now I need someone to tell me how to do this other way....
 
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Lensflare said:
Because 15 yearago thatwas how I was told Ihad to do it....not learned any new ways! So now I need someone to tell me how to do this other way....
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OK. I'm no teacher so you'll have to work the fine details out for yourself. Here goes....
To directly add a photo or other file to your reply simply click on the button shown here>
Capture.jpg
You then go to your PC and select your file. There's a couple of operational steps to follow but you're a clever guy and it will be easy for you.

If you want to set up your own gallery on here that too is easy. It's a bit like Flickr lite. Go here>
Capture2.jpg
There are steps to follow just like Flickr but they are easy to pick up.

Either way will get your pics onto here. Just depends if you want to set up a gallery or not.
Both the images I've posted have just been lifted straight from my PC using the first method.

No need for external sites at all.
Hope that helps.
 
There was a time, not so long ago, that storage was expensive and if you wanted pictures displayed at reasonable resolution then you HAD to use an external host. Apparently that time is now over.
 
Yeah!!!

Thank yoo!!
ooops - file is too big....so what now?
 
Lensflare said:
Yeah!!!

Thank yoo!!
ooops - file is too big....so what now?
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At the risk of sounding smug.....resize it.

Does that mean that when you go to your external sites you always upload full size files?
Happy for the world and his friend to download your files to do with as they wish?

Remember most folk look on here via phones or tablets. They won't be looking at them blown up to the size of a house. Forget the pixel peepers........you will never keep that lot happy whatever you do.

Want a simple way to resize? Search for Faststone Photo Resizer (or is it Image Resizer? Either way you'll find it. ) It's totally free and safe to download. Easier than messing about in CSx
 
mickledore said:
At the risk of sounding smug.....resize it.

Does that mean that when you go to your external sites you always upload full size files?
Happy for the world and his friend to download your files to do with as they wish?

Remember most folk look on here via phones or tablets. They won't be looking at them blown up to the size of a house. Forget the pixel peepers........you will never keep that lot happy whatever you do.

Want a simple way to resize? Search for Faststone Photo Resizer (or is it Image Resizer? Either way you'll find it. ) It's totally free and safe to download. Easier than messing about in CSx
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Errr....what is an'external site' please? I have always uploaded to photobucket and gone from there.

I have never seen an iphone or tablet. I have seen other people using them, but not used one myself. I think I shall just not bother at all - my work is all for commissions anyway, Or completely unimportant if anyone else sees it or not.

I have been getting more and more disillusioned with the internet over the last year or so and the total take over of technology, this latest episode just confirms it. Those who control the internet will have complete control over your lives before too long. Everything has to go through bloody iphone this and ipad that. I hate it. I ENJOY writing letters with my fountain pen, and thank you cards - the people that receive them all, without exception, say how much they enjoy gettig them and what a refreshing change it is.....efficiency isn't the be all and end all. Life has more to it than that.
 
Lensflare said:
Errr....what is an'external site' please? I have always uploaded to photobucket and gone from there.

I have never seen an iphone or tablet. I have seen other people using them, but not used one myself. I think I shall just not bother at all - my work is all for commissions anyway, Or completely unimportant if anyone else sees it or not.

I have been getting more and more disillusioned with the internet over the last year or so and the total take over of technology, this latest episode just confirms it. Those who control the internet will have complete control over your lives before too long. Everything has to go through bloody iphone this and ipad that. I hate it. I ENJOY writing letters with my fountain pen, and thank you cards - the people that receive them all, without exception, say how much they enjoy gettig them and what a refreshing change it is.....efficiency isn't the be all and end all. Life has more to it than that.
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It's not my place to advise but I will offer a small prediction.

If you give up on the internet and related technologies now, you will, within 10 years, either be f***ed or paying a lot of money to people to function in the real world.

BTW, I love my Scheaffer Imperial. :)
 
Hardly surprising. Datacenters racks and bandwidth come at a cost, running a free service would rely on advert revenue, but a lot now run ad blockers. Simple maths says they'll start charging for high use.

Looks like a they're blocking based on bandwidth usage though.
 
I hate Photobucket with a vengeance nowadays. Used to be a decent site but now it's full of adverts, redirects and hijacks. Imgur is a decent free hosting site.
 
I've been thinking that it's maybe time to start paying for storage in a photo site, since PB illustrates (maybe at the extreme) what can happen if you don't. Then I remember that one of the reasons I started using PB was to avoid paying the flickr Pro charge... that in itself isn't a reason against paying, but think what has happened to flickr Pro in the meantime. If I understand correctly folk are still paying but the "extra" benefits have gone away. In other words, paying doesn't guarantee your stuff will be there indefinitely.

I also tried to use the gallery on here but had trouble understanding and implementing the rules on file sizes. :(
 
Amusingly, I've just come across one of those Photobucket meter images demanding an account upgrade on a fleabay listing!
 
Well, that's my account deleted. Even that was a painful exercise with the sheer number of pop ups. Beyond a joke.
 
simon ess said:
Do you use Lightroom, Chris?
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No, still use Aperture. I've probably got all these images in folders called things like TP Uploads in the Pictures folder on my Mac, but working out what goes with which image could be a major headache. I might try and re-build a thread and see.

I'm a bit worried that flickr might also be at risk, given the current process of selling Yahoo that owns it. I know nothing of Imgur which is the other hosting site mentioned here and on twitter.
 
Does anyone use Abload - German image host. I looked into them a few years ago, but was lazy about translating the controls & didn't bother, though they did look to have a good ethos at the time.
 
boogie man said:
I hate Photobucket with a vengeance nowadays. Used to be a decent site but now it's full of adverts, redirects and hijacks. Imgur is a decent free hosting site.
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I've seen a couple of people suggesting imgur, so I went and took a look. Unfortunately this is in their T&Cs (my emphasis added):

"Stuff not to do
If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child porn or nonconsensual ("revenge") porn. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it."

Seems too much of a risk to me!
 
Errr , so what function do they serve then? It seems as though it is somewhere to store pictures but not have any ability to use them.

The internet is becoming more and more f***ed up. I am certainly not going to be ruled by it - beans and potatoes don't need the internet to grow......
 
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Lensflare said:
The internet is becoming more and more f***ed up. I am certainly not going to be ruled by it - beans and potatoes don't need the internet to grow......
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No but if you want to track down the seed for an unusual variety, or market the finished product to a potentially huge audience, it can be pretty handy! ;)
 
Mr Badger said:
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No but if you want to track down the seed for an unusual variety, or market the finished product to a potentially huge audience, it can be pretty handy! ;)
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There is the problem, why do I need to market it to a hge audience? All I need is to make enough to feed myself....GREED has brought us to this.

I have friends who moved to Cornwall a couple of years ago. They are making a perfectly good living off 16 acres, in fact it isn't 16 acres, because they are only working about 6 of them yet....no internet, no electricity other than their diesel genny, no running water...they are immensely happy and can sell all their produce at the farm gate and have people leaving orders when they run out.....

Perhaps the world needs to take a step back and just take a long hard look at itself.....
 
Lensflare said:
Perhaps the world needs to take a step back and just take a long hard look at itself.....
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Maybe. I know we're going a bit off thread with this but I just wanted to add a little something.

I spent decades fixing computer stuff and other stuff too and I started to avoid technology at home. I preferred lap tops to desk tops as I think that the latter dominate a room and make a room look like a workplace whereas I can close a lap top and put it out of sight. So, now that I don't work (I retired at 49 and I'm now 56 but I'm still slightly tech averse) I have a smart phone that someone gave me but I only use it as a phone maybe once a week if that, I have a tablet and a laptop and when I'm not using them they're put out of sight. I don't have games consoles or anything like that.

But.

I accept that I need to be able to use technology and the internet to do stuff like banking (and don't anyone tell me I can go to a branch, not these days you can't,) select gas and electricity suppliers, get house and car insurance and shop etc.

To reject the net would be lovely but anyone doing so would probably pay more for stuff, have lesser choice, get less return on any savings and generally have a more expensive and hassle filled life. I think these days the net is a necessary evil. Anyone could do without it for a while but try doing without it full time and for an extended period and I bet it'll e missed.
 
Lensflare said:
There is the problem, why do I need to market it to a hge audience? All I need is to make enough to feed myself....GREED has brought us to this.
I have friends who moved to Cornwall a couple of years ago. They are making a perfectly good living off 16 acres, in fact it isn't 16 acres, because they are only working about 6 of them yet....no internet, no electricity other than their diesel genny, no running water...they are immensely happy and can sell all their produce at the farm gate and have people leaving orders when they run out.....
Perhaps the world needs to take a step back and just take a long hard look at itself.....
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There is a little problem in that plan; there are 60 million people in the UK.. there's only 60million acres of land..
There isn't quite enough land for everyone to even have one acre each, before you take out all the land you cant grow anything on, or the land needed for roads and other public utilties, let alone the industry required to support even just agriculture; Farmers still need spades, you know!
Britain has had this small problem of a population greater than its agricultural potential for, oooh... about three hundred years; was what actually lead to the agricultural revolution and 'intensive' farming practices being pioneered in the 1700's;
Tearing down the agri-business infrastructure, that achieves a per acre productivity something in the order of 5 to 10x that of 'cottaging', the UK would be even less capable of feeding itself on the land available to grow food..
At a subsistence level, on the available productive land Britain has, it can probably just abut support a population 1/10th the size; then every-one might just about be able to cottage a couple of acres of productive land and feed themselves; might even just about support a couple of black-smiths and a miller or other specialist trade, for every two or three villages; welcome to the medieval life-style revival;!
Good news is that the working week would fall to an average of only about 12 hours labour, we would have an incredible amount of leisure time.. mostly in the winter, having worked from dawn till dusk most days of spring and summer, so loads of time off when its dark and pigging it down with rain, and we are huddled up in the cottage, wondering if we dare chuck another log on the fire to stay warm, or save it to cook dinner... and trying to make board-game pieces out of disguarded pig-bone to amuse ourselves in the twilight; or going to bed early; which would be good; with no medical contraception, child birth rates would skyrocket to around 12 children per couple, although without modern medicines, nine of them would probably die before they were twelve; but then even them that grew up, would be lucky to make it much past 50.....
How ironic that the 70's parody so contrarily actually inspired such idiotically idealized ideas of 'The Goode Life"!!!
Having grown up on what was pre-EU a relatively 'prosperous'; family farm... 60-million people, used to hot and cold running water, on demand TV and play-station, writing in to complain about a goat in Africa being slaughtered for dinner on a travelogue show!?!?! (Not even ruddy shown on screen!) Yeah.... well, I don't think we need worry too much about the population problem and food shortage for long! Wouldn't need the balloon to go up, or plague to strike to thin the herd a bit! Most would be wreathing on the floor clutching a kitchen knife being nuzzled by a pig, screaming "No! Leave me a lone! I cant do it! I'd rather Die!" and carry through on the promise!
The vogue for hippy idealists to 'move to the country' for their Tom & Barbera idiom; soon proved how few had the capacity for self sufficiency, and yet STILL how dependent they were on both modern technology and society to even try!
It's an untenable concept; it really really is.
 
I notice they have started to block me from posting pictures onto the forum.

Guess I will have to look elsewhere
 
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