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Alternatives to Photobucket?

Postby RayL » Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:25 am

As many of you will know, Photobucket found that they weren't making enough money from ads and, in a sudden change of policy (the technical phrase is 'death wish') , decided to stop users from linking images to other sites ('3rd party hosting') unless they paid large amounts of money. Fortunately, all the pics that I had on Photobucket were also stored elsewhere, but I understand that some people weren't that lucky. I deleted all my pics on Pb before I cancelled, just in case they decide to sell them on to some other firm as part of a takeover.

Does anyone have a recommendation for another photo-hosting site? Preferably without the level of intrusive ads that made Pb almost unusable before their death wish.
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Re: Alternatives to Photobucket?

Postby drakula63 » Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:12 am

RayL wrote:As many of you will know, Photobucket found that they weren't making enough money from ads and, in a sudden change of policy (the technical phrase is 'death wish') , decided to stop users from linking images to other sites ('3rd party hosting') unless they paid large amounts of money. Fortunately, all the pics that I had on Photobucket were also stored elsewhere, but I understand that some people weren't that lucky. I deleted all my pics on Pb before I cancelled, just in case they decide to sell them on to some other firm as part of a takeover.

Does anyone have a recommendation for another photo-hosting site? Preferably without the level of intrusive ads that made Pb almost unusable before their death wish.


I have been told that imgur.com / postimage.org / tinypic.com are all good.

https://imgur.com/

http://tinypic.com/

https://postimages.org/
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Re: Alternatives to Photobucket?

Postby RayL » Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:22 am

Thanks, Chris.

Tinypic are owned by Photobucket but I'll investigate the other two.
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