Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Please do not delete your photobucket accounts - there is a fix

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Seeing Past Photobucket Hotlink Block, like this:



Photobucket has chosen to show you this block image instead of the original image. However, unless the user deleted their photobucket account, every old photobucket image is still linked on this website (and every other place on the internet).

There are Free Add-Ons available for both Chrome and Firefox, which will let you choose to see the original photo instead of the "ransom block" image, throughout the Internet.

For Chrome - chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... aedg?hl=en

Then search for PHOTOBUCKET

for Firefox - addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/photobucket-fix/

With this, you can see everyone's old photobucket images in context on every thread and every website.

Uploading the patch, you're not doing photobucket any favors, giving them any money, agreeing with them - all you're doing is restoring your old knowledge base to where it was before the photobucket ransom

If you want to remove the add on later, go to Add-ons/Extensions and remove or disable it, or with Chrome, just right-click on your toolbar.

I went to postimage. works great

I was able to transfer all the images I wanted from PhotoBucket back to my PC's hard drive...
that is how I dealt with the problem so they weren't lost...can post them to another host
if I need to post....

I post this here, to ensure, that, please, you do not delete your accounts, even if you may now, after the ransom decision, not use em anymore.

Old threads can still be viewed after installing this fix in your browser:



Lets conserve our collective work.

Yeah .. F-U-C-K photobucket. I had many hundreds, possibly low thousands, of pictures those c-o-c-k-s-u-c-k-e-r-s tried to hold hostage. I'm DONE with them and their extortion. At the time I signed up, their service was free and "advertised" to be permanently free. The whole point was exactly third party hosting. Bait and switch? Y' know what they say, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. To HELL with photobucket.

I deleted all of my content from their extortion site. I left my account active so that they can send me offers of service and I can tell them F-U-C-K Y-O-U as often as possible.

It makes me rethink how much I shared. Sort of reeling myself back in. For that little amount I still do want to share, our site's local hosting is more than adequate. For other sites, Flickr isn't too bad.

If I need a pay site, it will be one that hosts web pages, not just an image archive.

Tom