I just discovered this today and wanted to pass it on , If you use Photobucket, as I have for the last over 10 years, you have to now start paying for it, if you want to share your photos here, or anywhere.
The worst part is, that although this became effective June 20th, and they announced it on the 26th, they have replaced all photos previously hosted , with this .....
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I see this on mine as far back as the Hometown thread posts I did in January of this year! I don' know how far back in time this is happening but surely a lot of them now in the Birthday threads and the Jealous of the Big threads, I think its disgusting of them! Theyre allowing us to download our photos, but SOL for the ones that are already on public platforms like here.
They're just holding them hostage and will release them once you 'subscribe' to a payment plan.
heres a link to an article about it with other links to more .....
Photobucket accused of blackmail after quietly requiring users to pay $400 a year to hotlink - The Verge