You must pay them then...
Not a dime.
You lucky bastid. I'd say it's just a matter of time then.
I can still link to photos from Photobucket as well but it is an unsecure link. The address of TRH's picture is
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w188/TheRealHawkeye/IMG_0286_zpsptjosyin.jpg. That http needs to be https.
That exposes this page to all kinds of nefarious people and software. To what specific purpose, I don't really know - malware, ransomware, you name it. I do know that pretty much every server in the world is under constant attack. That was brought home to me by a network engineer who showed me a list of IP addresses trying to gain access to a minor server in our hospital system - attacks from China and India predominantly but also from Belgium of all places, This wasn't just one or two per day, but all day long, hundreds of attacks each day on one minor server in Boise, ID (not exactly the high value data capitol of the world) used to track bandages and aspirin. Multiply that by the well over 1,000 servers we have in our data center.
The whole point of using the new Image Gallery is to eliminate ALL links from unsecured addresses staring with http.