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Post by glenr on Oct 8, 2017 12:42:45 GMT
I have installed it and have tried it on my book thread which is photo heavy in another forum and it works. I was deleting the albums and photo's from the bucket. So some of my photos are goneI refuse to be held up for ransom ware like they did!
Apparently Google Chrome and Foxfire have found a way to access the photos that Photobucket.com does not now allow you to post to 3rd party sites anymore without paying a high price.
"In the cases where former/current PhotoBucket users haven't deleted all their albums, Chrome and Firefox now have an extension, Photobucket Embed Fix, that will display 3rd party hosted images. It will fix all your broken pics, no need for you to do anything, it runs entirely in the background.
Click Tools>Add-Ons (Or press CTL+Shift+A) >select Extensions > enter "photobucket embed" in the Search box (upper right corner) > then click the install button."
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Post by mrblackcat on Oct 8, 2017 15:45:00 GMT
I figured it wouldn't be that long until there was a work-around, but I am sure Photo-Bucket will counter this eventually. I don't post a ton of pictures here, and I almost always use thumbnails, and they always show up for me. Let me know if these work or not...  MrBlackCat |
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Post by glenr on Oct 8, 2017 21:54:19 GMT
works,they show up I know but if it irritates them even for a while it is worth it. I no longer use them and deleted a large number of albums.
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Post by mrblackcat on Oct 9, 2017 0:30:47 GMT
I had my own web server (physically in my home) all through the 90's... that was great. I wasn't www domain listed, so I didn't get excessive hits, so it was excellent for hosting my stuff like images and my 200+ page web-site. There wasn't high-speed in rural areas back then, so I had three phone lines and modems for the most bandwidth I could get without unreasonable expense. These were combined into one IP address on my ISP's end... it was THE way to do it at the time. ISP's don't care for local servers, dedicated IP's etc anymore. I have considered doing something like this again... but with all the software exploitable bugs and drastic increase in people with nothing to do but hack your software, and using bots for data-mining, I have chosen not to bother for now.
This will be an unpopular view, and I am ok with that...
As far as Photo-Bucket... I don't fault them directly, but let me explain... I more fault their business model of "free" to get people using it, then switching to monetization. If people would just pay for what they use and not use "free" services, this could never happen and would be inexpensive. I think the main thing people don't understand, is that there is no free with a service like this... and with the number of people on the internet today, there are too many people to carry along with the few paying customers. Photo-Bucket will go broke anyway as their execution of switching... I think they know that now. I will enjoy watching them fail due to their incompetent management.
I hosted a LOT of stuff for people (mostly remote mass storage) that I suppose was completely free to those persons, but these were friends or people I knew well... but for the anonymous, I think it unreasonable to seek free.
MrBlackCat
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Post by glenr on Oct 9, 2017 9:58:19 GMT
As you said reasonable, not to do the ransom ware thing almost overnight. I think they know they might have made a mistake, I unsubscribed from all e mails and of last week I am getting one a day emails from them asking me to come back
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