Looks like photobucket wish to loose a few customers

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Looks like photobucket wish to loose a few customers

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Alternatively refered to as inline linking, "hotlinking" is the action of linking to an image or object on another server. An example of hotlinking would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image that you uploaded to your Photobucket account so it will appear on a different website like Etsy, eBay auction listings, blogs, forum messages, etc.
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Yep - just noticed what's going on.

That means most of the photos in anything I've posted on this site are now gone, at least in terms of being in-lined with the text. What a joke.

Time to find another site, and sort out my signature :laughing2
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1234dist wrote:An example of hotlinking would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image that you uploaded to your Photobucket account so it will appear on a different website like Etsy, eBay auction listings, blogs, forum messages, etc.
Isn't this what these services are for, to enable someone to share images across a group? Otherwise, why upload them to a site, when you could send them directly to the people you want to see them. :S
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Well thats what i thought, but obviously they are not making enough from the advertising anymore for their slow appalling service and unusable apps.

If they start that on mine (over 8gb) then i will purge the site and build my own :mad
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ok, little hack found that many may not have spotted.

if you copy the link you get the not good pb warning but if you right click the picture and choose the copy link thing, it seems to work for me (win 10, chrome).
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Just taken my signature off, which will stop it annoying people...
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Can you use the Microsoft Cloud like you would PB ?

Would be a shame as my account is about 9 years old now. :sad
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and now they attack me :cursing

let the purge begin.
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i have moved over to imgbb, will update my links shortly :cool
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Quick gaydon test :cool

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