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Here is the text of The PC Magazine's article in case you prefer not
to click on the link above.
Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
Embedding images on a website or in a forum post is a very common
practice, with those images usually living on one of the many well-known
image hosting websites. One such host is Photobucket, but a recent
change to its subscription tiers means many millions of images across the
Internet are no longer going to load outside of Photobucket's own site.
The key feature of a Photobucket account we're talking about here is
called "3rd Party Hosting." It allows you to embed images from
Photobucket in another location on the Internet, e.g. in a forum post
or on a website.
As Norvic Philatelics discovered, Photobucket changed its terms and
conditions and removed the 3rd Party Hosting feature from the lower
subscription tiers. If you want to continue using that feature, then a
"Photobucket Plus 500" subscription is required. It costs $39.99 per
month or $399 per year.
Not only is that very expensive, it means existing Photobucket accounts
on lower subscriptions tiers will have any embedded images they've
created in the past cease to work. Considering Photobucket has been
around since 2003 and hosts over 10 billion images, that's potentially
millions of embedded images across the Internet being broken thanks
to a policy change.
The worst part of this debacle, according to Ghacks.net, is the fact
Photobucket users were apparently given no warning of the change.
The subscription features simply changed, and images stopped loading
without explanation.
There's hope this is a mistake, or that Photobucket's management will
realize the scale of the problem they have created with this change.
But if that doesn't happen, expect to see that Photobucket broken link
image many times in the coming months.
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