photochucket

[Stevie]

Whoa Guys, heads-up!

Your friend and mine, photobucket (I refrain from dignifying it/them with a large case initial as should befit a proper noun) has summarily removed all free account hosted image links. The "customer" can choose to pay $399 annually to have these these links restored. This makes the current cancer of ransomeware attacks look like a bargain at $300 to get all your data back...
I would advocate downloading any images you have on photobucket onto your current chosen hardware platform while you still can (always provided that you can withstand the adverts assault that is!)
I accept that this could be fake news and that I should check it out first, but some part of me really wants to believe it anyway.

e&oe...

[slide496]

Thanks Stevie. Several confirmations on that online...

I don't use it- you can link to a jpg as an "attachment" from a computer though, which is what I usually do.

I've never tried to do that from a mobile device so I don't know what the story is there.

Lawd lawdy,
Harriet

[creolian]

Jun 30, 2017 14:44:11 GMT Stevie said:

Whoa Guys, heads-up!

Your friend and mine, photobucket (I refrain from dignifying it/them with a large case initial as should befit a proper noun) has summarily removed all free account hosted image links. The "customer" can choose to pay $399 annually to have these these links restored. This makes the current cancer of ransomeware attacks look like a bargain at $300 to get all your data back...
I would advocate downloading any images you have on photobucket onto your current chosen hardware platform while you still can (always provided that you can withstand the adverts assault that is!)
I accept that this could be fake news and that I should check it out first, but some part of me really wants to believe it anyway.

e&oe...

Considering that cloud storage costs considerably less, this doesn't make a lot of sense... But then again I thought Dickens had a pretty wild imagination in his character development before trump happened  

If things keep going they they are I'll be reduced to hanging out on the porch with friends, playing blues, barbecuing and drinking beer... LOL

Cheers !

Jeff