The site gave zero warning, just a blog post announcing its new terms of service, which didn’t mention the price change. It’s a major turn from just a couple years ago - in June 2017, Photobucket quietly introduced a $399 annual fee to embed images on third-party sites. Photobucket now wants to be seen as the site you can trust to store your photos forever. But under new management, the company is currently in the middle of an apology tour, trying to regain the public’s trust after a sudden, exorbitant price increase that had its remaining users accusing the company of extortion two years ago. Once accounting for 2 percent of US internet traffic by hosting photos for sites like eBay and Myspace, Photobucket is now somewhere in the range of the 1,500th most-visited website in the US, according to Alexa rankings. The company is trying to make a comeback as more than just a site for forgotten photos, though usage has dramatically declined over the years, and it faces significantly more competition than when it first launched in 2003. “We found that people were like, ‘Where do I find that picture of myself 10 years ago? It’s probably on Photobucket,’” its CEO Ted Leonard tells me. When the 10-year challenge went viral earlier this year, everyone who wanted to brag about how hot they used to be had the same idea for where to find those nostalgic photos: legacy photo hosting site Photobucket, which saw a massive uptick in traffic that week. Photobucket still has your photos, and it wants you to come backĪfter a disastrous year, Photobucket wants people to trust it with their memories Now, for the sake of the above article 'disappearing', here is a text copy minus the images: Mind you, my Photobucket account started as the free account over a decade ago and while I understand more storage usage can and will come at a cost, 'extortion' is a keyword used to best describe what many users have been and are experiencing:Ĭlick to read the Article: Photobucket still has your photos, and it wants you to come back (After a disastrous year, Photobucket wants people to trust it with their memories) This article from Jstates in detail what has been happening with Photobucket, and what we as subscribers have been bombarded with.

I have used Photobucket for over 10 years, linking many many pictures I've taken of various bike builds and just general sharing. So I want to share some information regarding why us PB subscribers are having our photos blurred (with the PB watermark stamped on it) or removed from our posts. Many of us use Photobucket to post motorcycle related photos in these and other forums.

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