Possible FIX for Photobucket MESS

nevadablue · Sep 10, 2017

Fix for photobucket
Saw this, haven't tested it yet, but several folks on another forum say they work.
One for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/photobucket-fix/?src=cb-dl-created
And one for Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-embed-fix/naolkcpnnlofnnghnmfegnfnflicjjgj?hl=en

Chasing Embers · Sep 10, 2017

I just use the forum album.

sablebrush52 · Sep 10, 2017

This is an interesting idea with potentially landmark legal and financial implications for businesses. Photobucket makes linking images to third party servers "pay for play" feature. Google write an app that effectively hacks Photobucket's permissions so that images can be displayed on remote servers without paying Photobucket's exorbitant fees. Let the legal actions begin!
Odds are, if this works, Photobucket will be forced to charge a membership fee for any and all services or your images go poof! No free services. Or, Google will get the shit sued out of them. Either way, highly interesting.

Chasing Embers · Sep 10, 2017

One of the best features I've found with the forum album is that even when you are deleting pics from the album to clear up clutter, the images remain in threads you posted them in.

jndyer · Sep 10, 2017

Actually, the Chrome add on mentioned above does not appear to be created by Google.

cosmicfolklore · Sep 10, 2017

The whole third party thing makes sense if a web-designer is using Photobucket to save space on their server. But, the whole idea of using Photobucket is to share with friends and family. It doesn't make sense that I couldn't share a picture on a forum, since I am not profitting from it, nor am I the owner of the forum server. IMo sharing an image on a forum just got tangled into the net that they've created to stop web-designers who are mooching. But, that is just my guesstimating. In swapping emails with Photofucket, they are priced to stop freeloading web-designers. When i explained what I wanted to use the images for, they just sort of appologized and said, "oh well," we cant taylor fit the programming. I don't see a fix or workaround being an issue, IMO, since we are not using the images the same way a designer would. But, I don't work for Photobucket.

ashdigger · Sep 10, 2017

I fixed my PhotoPhucket nightmare by switching to Imgur.

nevadablue · Sep 10, 2017

I don't use them either, (I left all my pics on their site to spite them) but posted the links to help someone who may be trying to repair old threads. I know folks on other forums who are busy right now scraping up pics to enable them to make PDF files of the broken threaads or post the images directly on the forum or a new host.

weezell · Sep 10, 2017

I fixed my PhotoPhucket nightmare by switching to Imgur.

I've used Imgur from the onset. Found them the easiest to use...

jpmcwjr · Sep 10, 2017

Thanks for the idea! For those with an investment of time with Photobitchit, perhaps that will work.
Increasingly I've become a fan of this site's album, esp. since I learned how to post larger images from it. Otherwise, it's Imgur and Postimage.

anthonyrosenthal74 · Sep 10, 2017

I've started using Imgur. Trying to get the feel for it since I was so used to Photosuckit after using them basically forever. But I just can't bring myself to use Photosuckit anymore. I can understand, to a degree, charging a fee, and I did find another site that does charge a fee, but it was the same amount for 5 years that Photobucket wanted to charge for a month.

tuold · Sep 10, 2017

I installed the Chrome browser extension and it works great. So thanks, nevadablue, for that information!
I've switched to Imgur, but I really missed a lot of the old photos forum members have added through the years using Photobucket.

drydock · Sep 11, 2017

I upload pics to the album feature here too. I'm playing around with a few other photo posting/sharing options too. Frankly, I'm torn between Flickr, Imgur & maybe Instagram options.

woodsroad · Sep 11, 2017

I've been using FOTKI for forum pix and such since 2005.
Here is their pricing info.

balkisobrains · Sep 11, 2017

I loaded the extension and it does work, but I started using Flickr even before any of this became an issue because Pbucket generally sucked to use anyway. It was mostly impossible to use, actually. I'm sure that if I were to go to their website right now, there would be tons of pop-ups and re-directs, and nothing related to the images would actually be clickable until the page finishes loading, which basically never happens.

snowyowl · Sep 11, 2017

Ken:

Just added the Chrome extension, and the many images I've published here now show... again. Thanks.

Hopefully others using Firefox or Chrome will add -- to be able to view images added by the many members who used Photophuckit.

And if that ultimately fails... other fixes will follow to restore all the images here within the forum.

ssjones · Sep 11, 2017

Like ashdigger, I fixed my Photobucket by deleting 2,100 photos and switched to Postimage. PB had more bells and whistles (sub albums) but I no longer trusted it.

danielplainview · Sep 11, 2017

Yep! ^^^ Al told me about postimage. ^^^ Couldn't be easier. Works great.

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