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Dang it Photobucket!

I've prepared a thoroughly immature rant just for you. Hmm, after writing it out I think I feel a bit calmer and less like my head will explode.

I have been a subscriber for a little over ten years to Photobucket, posting tutorials on using the site's services and recommending it to many people. Well, let's just say they pulled a dick move.

I noticed my photos had all been replaced with this ugly clicky picture. "please update your account to enable third party hosting".

I click on it and the page loads and says "Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level.". The terms of service was changed on July 5, 2017. Perhaps they let users know in advance, but I was not informed. That was likely my fault since I am lax about checking email.

It just made me annoyed. Like I been doing this third party hosting dealy through some sort of exploit, when it had been a service all along. So now I either upgrade my account ($$$$) or piss off, since the site has become basically useless (to me, at any rate).

I know in the scheme of things this isn't really anything, but geez, I really was quite satisfied with my Photobucket account and now... whoosh!

In order to keep using my account exactly like I have been for years I must pay quite a large sum of money to upgrade my account to a "Plus 500" I mean, what the hell am I going to do with 500GB?! I had 2 GB with my old account and have a ton of pictures and my storage is only at 23%.

Oh well, I hear good things about Imgur, must check them out.

I know many companies offer a free version of their products and in return for not having to pay for stuff, the customer accepts that there will be limitations to what their version can do. No problem, I get that. It's like "free to play" MMOs. They offer the bare bones because they want you to upgrade and add features to your account. Makes sense really. It just feels crappy to when reluctant to leave a service or feature after many years with it.