Author Topic: what happened to photobucket?  (Read 7664 times)

Torslanda

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #25 on: 08 July, 2017, 11:28:04 pm »
Money grabbing donkey felching twats.

If you try and view the 'John's Bikes Gallery' thread, the whole fucking lot has disappeared.

Well, sorry but if you think I'm forking out that kind of money for the privelege of having a few pics available for teh funniez you've got another thing coming.

Fuck off. Fuck right off and when you've finished fucking off, fuck off a bit more. Hope your servers get hacked by whoever has taken over from the Eastern European mafia . . .

Right. off to transfer all the images to $somewhere else
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #26 on: 08 July, 2017, 11:36:17 pm »
I feel your pain.
I'm interested to see how photobucket's move pans out amongst the other image hosting sites.
I pay a nominal sum to host my pics on flickrpro - and am happy ( I don't actually like it - it is quite clunky)   to do so. - Nothing like the fee photobucket are asking for.

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #27 on: 09 July, 2017, 12:40:54 pm »
What Jurek said.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #28 on: 09 July, 2017, 12:47:29 pm »
Photobucket's crap anyway, almost crashes my browser, it tries to run about 20 scripts and god knows what tracking crap.

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #29 on: 09 July, 2017, 07:48:05 pm »
How does photobucket know if an image is being hotlinked vs whether it is being requested to show in a page on its own site?...
I thought this was done via a 'referrer' HTTP header. Right?

So could you 'spoof' this header? You would require the website's (i.e. the one that wants to display the image) and/or possibly even the browser's, co-operation - but if I am requesting any images from photobucket, I set the referrer header to photobucket, would it serve up the image? Would it require the browser's co-operation, or just the site's?

What if you just request the image on its own - say by pasting its URL (ending in .jpg) into the address bar, or using curl?

Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #30 on: 13 July, 2017, 07:08:17 pm »
Charlottes avatar has vanished.  It's the end times !
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #31 on: 13 July, 2017, 07:12:10 pm »
Blimey!  If they've got Charlotte the apocalypse surely is imminent.   :o

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #32 on: 13 July, 2017, 11:02:57 pm »
Well, two weeks on and my photo on page one of this thread still shows.  When they finally get me, I really wont have the enthusiasm for the work involved in replacing every photo I've posted on this forum.   That will spoil improve a lot of threads.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #33 on: 14 July, 2017, 08:38:39 pm »
Can't believe all my cat pics have gone. :-[

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #34 on: 15 July, 2017, 08:43:04 pm »
Well, two weeks on and my photo on page one of this thread still shows.  When they finally get me, I really wont have the enthusiasm for the work involved in replacing every photo I've posted on this forum.   That will spoil improve a lot of threads.

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #35 on: 15 July, 2017, 08:54:10 pm »
Well, two weeks on and my photo on page one of this thread still shows.  When they finally get me, I really wont have the enthusiasm for the work involved in replacing every photo I've posted on this forum.   That will spoil improve a lot of threads.

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #36 on: 16 July, 2017, 10:23:14 am »
Nor me. I fear they got to Basil.

Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #37 on: 16 July, 2017, 10:56:57 am »
I deleted my account sod them

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #38 on: 16 July, 2017, 11:37:42 am »
Bugger
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #39 on: 17 July, 2017, 07:28:55 am »
has anyone come across an automated way of migrating pictures & links? Must be possible. No time to try myself for another month or so.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #40 on: 01 August, 2017, 03:31:14 pm »
I started the laborious task of restoring photos to my posts.  However, when I got back to early April 2017, I find that the photofuckit stored shots are still visible.  Or they are to me. 
Are they working through each file one by one, or do you think the older ones will survive?

For instance, I can still see this photofuckit hosted item.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102096.msg2143234#msg2143234 

Can anyone else?
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #41 on: 01 August, 2017, 03:33:10 pm »
I can't. Just get the upgrade and pay us lots of money image.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #42 on: 01 August, 2017, 03:52:39 pm »
I can't. Just get the upgrade and pay us lots of money image.

Oh crap.  You're right.  Can't see it from my phone or tablet.  I should have checked that before asking.
Funny that it's still visible on my laptop though.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #43 on: 01 August, 2017, 05:57:51 pm »
They've messed up my eBay listings.  Bloody bastards.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #44 on: 01 August, 2017, 06:36:42 pm »
Well, I'm slowly working my way back, replacing photofuckit links with Flickr.  Got back to December 16 so far.  There are a couple of caption it images that I haven't been able to replace.  I'm not sure whether to just leave them or delete the thread.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #45 on: 01 August, 2017, 06:46:09 pm »
I started the laborious task of restoring photos to my posts.  However, when I got back to early April 2017, I find that the photofuckit stored shots are still visible.  Or they are to me. 
Are they working through each file one by one, or do you think the older ones will survive?

For instance, I can still see this photofuckit hosted item.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102096.msg2143234#msg2143234 

Can anyone else?
I can see that image, Basil.

Edit: but the image claims to be on flickr... ???
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #46 on: 01 August, 2017, 07:58:36 pm »
I started the laborious task of restoring photos to my posts.  However, when I got back to early April 2017, I find that the photofuckit stored shots are still visible.  Or they are to me. 
Are they working through each file one by one, or do you think the older ones will survive?

For instance, I can still see this photofuckit hosted item.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102096.msg2143234#msg2143234 

Can anyone else?
I can see that image, Basil.

Edit: but the image claims to be on flickr... ???

Because I moved it to Flickr when Steve said that he couldn't see it up thread.
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #47 on: 02 August, 2017, 02:17:28 pm »
For instance, I can still see this photofuckit hosted item.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102096.msg2143234#msg2143234 

Can anyone else?
I can.

Mine are still visible too, or at least all those I've checked. I figured it was because I use relatively little storage (not that many images, screen resolution (800x600 etc) only, so they haven't got round to me yet. I've had the warning email
There should be a photo visible below
I host the photos I post here on photobucket

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I've started moving them it dropbox, and changing the links

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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #48 on: 02 August, 2017, 02:26:44 pm »
The reason you can see mine is because I have now moved it to Flickr
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Re: what happened to photobucket?
« Reply #49 on: 02 August, 2017, 02:32:07 pm »
Mine are still visible too, or at least all those I've checked. I figured it was because I use relatively little storage (not that many images, screen resolution (800x600 etc) only, so they haven't got round to me yet. I've had the warning email
There should be a photo visible below
I host the photos I post here on photobucket

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I can see that just fine. For now.

I'm in a similar situation to you - I've had the shakedown email, but my pictures that I've hot-linked in classifieds posts are still visible.

I will probably log in to PB just one more time, in order to nuke my account, because given that I'm only using on-line hosting for pictures of bits that I'm selling, the number of pictures and the achievable resale value of said parts etc does not justify what PB are demanding in order for me to hot-link pictures.

They can go pound sand as far as I'm concerned.
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