Photobucket 3rd party hosting

[Chevy1925]

I know where you live

damn it... i forgot about that! :roflmao:

So you're saying that if you use Google Chrome with some sort of add-on, the pics show back up? That it somehow overrides PB's extortion bullshit?
How can that be?

Wizardry Tom..... wizardry :joker:

 

[Cougar281]

That's one thing they really didn't think about. You can get a domain name for $15 or less a year. Get a basic hosting plan for $5-10 a month and get 10gigs or more storage and do it on your own.

Didn't cost me anything extra to create an A record and provision a Linux VM . But you're right, for most people, they could do the same thing with their own setup for quite a bit less than $400/yr. They're probably banking on people that just 'love' them to stick around and fork it over - how anyone could like them is beyond me - the site is slow, ads all over the place - had to wade through a bazillion adds just to download my stuff - I swear half my monitors real estate was taken up by adds - not counting the ones that popped up and covered the whole page... And the 'Recpatcha' garbage? Made me want to punch my monitor .

 

[2004LB7]

another option is google drive for you that have a google account.

google drive doesn't use permanent links for its "sharing" so if you use that then it will drop out after a short bit, what i do use use this site to get the permanent link (https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/) then put that here.

since google drive is free (for now) and allows upto 15 GB of storage it what i use. it also is easy to upload from your phones and there is a desktop app that has drag and drop functionality. it would be the perfect hosting site if the direct links where the permanent ones

google photos is also another possibility

 

[TheBac]

I found a plug-in for Firefox that defeats PBs bullshidt in most cases. I can see pics again. James was right....wizardry.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/photobucket-embedded-fix/?src=api