Property News · October 19, 2017

Photobucket’s shock hosting fee is holding web users to ransom


It’s asking for £300 a year to release them, having never charged anything for yearsFor the past 10 years I’ve been using the photo-sharing website Photobucket to host the pictures featured on my three blogs. In June, Photobucket deleted all the photos and said that I (and millions of other users) would have to pay $400 (£302) a year to “release” them. I’d happily pay a reasonable sum, but this is extortionate. One solution would be to download my photo library, but Photobucket has said a bug makes it impossible for users to do so (other than at the laborious rate of one picture at a time). I’m not out of pocket, but the blogs represent 10 years’ work. KM, LondonPhotobucket, which claims to have 100 million users, allows photos uploaded on to its site to be embedded on multiple third-party websites. Until this summer its service used by thousands of Amazon and eBay sellers was free, funded only by advertising revenue. The US-based company says it informed users by email 30 days before the new charge kicked in, but you – along with other customers who have taken to social media – insist you received no such warning. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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