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Does anyone know why photobucket pics on 2+2 are working again??

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09-07-2017 , 01:57 PM

ArcticKnight

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As some of you probably know, photobucket disabled the links to third party sites and wanted $400 a year to get an account that would allow third party linking. So, all of my pre-Imagur pics on 2+2 went dead.

They are now back??? Any techies know whether this is something 2+2 did or whether photobucket has reversed its position. I cant seem to find anything on photobucket changing its position.

And, I sure as heck didn't pay the $400....lol

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09-08-2017 , 10:47 PM

Loki

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Where on earth did you hear that photobucket wanted money for that?

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09-08-2017 , 10:55 PM

au4all

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Where on earth did you hear that photobucket wanted money for that?

There's a huge number of threads with titles like these everywhere:

Photobucket blocked everyone's photo's demands $399 to restore

Photobucket Accused Of Blackmail / Holding Images Hostage!

Photobucket holding Photos Hostage for Ransom - Datehookup

Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet

Photobucket breaks billions of photos online, upsets millions of users

Photobucket goes downhill for years, finally decides to commit suicide

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09-09-2017 , 05:16 PM

ArcticKnight

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Where on earth did you hear that photobucket wanted money for that?

hmm.. I heard it from photobucket..

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09-10-2017 , 12:37 PM

Loki

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Just read about it here:

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/06...over-charging/

Hadn't heard of this before. Guess it was just for, shall we say, power users.

No clue how long it hadn't been working on this site or when it started working again. If it wasn't broken for months I'd guess the swap to https caused a temporary problem that has since been rectified.

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09-10-2017 , 01:57 PM

ArcticKnight

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

I just checked photobucket site and it is still $400 for any 3rd party site sharing. So, who knows why the links are still working..

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09-10-2017 , 06:43 PM

Loki

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seems to be working, but on their site it says it shouldn't

no clue wtf they're doing, but i guess it's a good time to save any photos offline

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