Anyone had issues with Photobucket stopping image embedding?

Tried to embed an image on here last night and got this instead:

Following link it says I need an account upgrade to allow me to embed images but no explanation as to why. I’ve been using PB for years to post stuff on here and other social media so why this, now?

Also, who else allows easy image load and forum embedding?

Imgur works.

Imgur

Postimage

Both are free and easy to use.

Looks like Photobucket now want to charge.

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o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.

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There was a little survey on photobucket the other day – asked if 3rd party hosting was used. Also asked if you used it to link on “for sale ads and eBay… Maybe from this they saw a source of revenue. Well they can bugger off when there’s so many free places to do it!
Test what my account does…

[edit]arse!

Ah well, looks like change of t’s and c’s then. There’s going to be an awful lot of broken links in forums and searches cos they don’t even leave a ‘text’ link to the image behind.

My son tells me that imgur have now added a *lot* of behaviour tracking on their site – links to images now link to pages with a load of Javascript on it. He’s loaded a script that blocks JS on imgur! Also, if you upload an image it now produces a load of ‘suggested’ posts which are below the fold on a mobile but which take up a lot of mobile data.

He uses Reddit which has it’s own image hosting so didn;t have an immmediate alternative…

There’s going to be an awful lot of broken links in forums
Certainly is!
I’ll just use my Google albums – it’s a faff cos you have to get a shortened link from the URL (I use tinyurl), but it works ok.

Just downloading everything off photobucket and will then clear my account.

Been on there for years but if they can’t make their business model work for the way I want to use it then I’m not giving them content.

looks like you can still copy the IMG and post (I usually trim back the URL bits)

EDIT appears on my laptop but not on the phone, I can see mattyfez’s photo on both laptop and phone

Working for me? I’ve not seen the above issue?

Neither of the above posts are showing images btw

No I can’t see the pic of the plastic bung on a hanger either.

But! Thumbnail links still work 😀

DezB – Member

No I can’t see the pic of the plastic bung on a hanger either.

Me neither. Nor the natty blue mesh style detailing…

Wanders off to do a test link from Photobucket (it might appear in 3 hrs given the normal log-in time…..

Photobucket used to be good for hosting & linking images but over the last few years it’s got worse & worse . I got fed up with all the adverts I encounter every time I use so I’ve just deleted my account.
For the moment I’m using Imgur without any problems.

I’m using the android app, if that makes any difference, as the website proper is pretty much unusable.

Available Plus Account Plans : Photobucket offers the following Plus Account Plans:

o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.

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I’ve also got the PB android app, I use it to back up all photos from my phone to my PB account. I’ll try linking a photo via the app.

They’ve also made it so you can’t go on there with an adblocker enabled, which has rendered the site effectively unusable.

Sounds like they’re adopting the STW model of “pay us or we’ll make it completely useless”.

Just testing mine. Link copied from PB app on iPhone.

EDIT – works ok!!

Testing testing 1,2,3

Edit: works iPhone app

I think that the rules are applied when it detects an image is linked to rather than when it is loaded.

*Or perhaps the IMG url is just changed to the other image? And a direct link to the jpg would work*

hang on.

Copying image location and manually adding:

copying IMG link from PB

No idea then…

I gave up waiting for Photobucket to load to test it out….

Says it all, really.

Yep, mine been blocked too, they must have phased it across their users and it’s caught up to me. I’ll take all the stuff off over the next few days, I don’t think there’s anything up on it I don’t have a hard disk backup of, but I’ll have to check.

Alternatives then? Dropbox? Microsoft? Google? Imgur? Reddit? Flickr?

copying IMG link from PB

No idea then..

Maybe we’re more frequent posters from it: “Look who’s popular” ??

Might open a new account, test see if that works…

So it’s not just me then.
Time to look for an alternative. Don’t like the sound of Imgur.
I thought about iCloud, but it wants to upload my entire library, which is far too big.

I’ve found an email from PB @5.43am in my spam, says that features on my account have been disabled, namely using it for 3rd party hosting.

Yeah, just found it in my spam: “WE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN USING
PHOTOBUCKET FOR 3RD PARTY HOSTING” well, yeah, that’s what it’s for you morons, hence the direct link you’ve supplied for years. Well noticed!

Why is mine work8ng?

They’ve also made it so you can’t go on there with an adblocker enabled, which has rendered the site effectively unusable.

That also applies to hotlinked images. I spent ages a while back trying to fix people’s broken links before realising they weren’t broken but were being blocked.

Works for me

It’s going to be amusing to revisit this page in a few days, with folk going “works for me!” and loads of links to broken images.

Actually, that’s a point. I was thinking, it’s kinda mass vandalism to the histories any forums who hotlink images perhaps going back years.

Then I wondered – is that why some work and some don’t? Are existing images displaying fine, and ones uploaded after the T&Cs changed are not?

The “Photos you have taken in the last month of which you are proud?” Thread is going to be a mess.

Sorry, the obligatory test:

still working for me at the moment then – though as pointed out above, presumably in a few days this post will have a broken image with me saying it’s still working

Just checked and mines not working.

Bellends.

I’ll download and delete my account.

OK, give up. Copied photo over to google photos but can’t get a working link