I used photobucket.com for several years to host the pictures for this blog, but it got progressively more annoyingly packed with pop up ads and malware and such, to the point that the site interface became maddeningly slow, awkward and unusable. At the same time they started making more and more unpredictable and unreasonable subscription extortion attempts. Now they've turned off all my pictures and told me I need to pay $40 a month for the rest of my life to turn them back on again. $40/month? F U that's more than my phone bill.
Now I have to decide how to deal with the problem of rehosting the images from hundreds of old blog posts. For new blogs, I've just been uploading the pics directly into blogger, but I don't know if blogger might also pull some kind of ransom attempt like this in the future.
Advice to companies like photobucket: If you want people to pay for the premium version of a service, don't let the free version of the service turn to such user-abusing shit that all your potential customers hate you and would never dream of giving you money.
Saturday 11 23 24 morning call
6 hours ago
1 comment:
Never trust anybody you can't see nose to nose and grab by the throat. Never trust anything electronic either. I hope you can repost all your pictures. Maybe some day you can print all your blog posts into a massive coffee table book. You can see that I'm a geezer who doesn't trust anything not printed and in my house to last for too many years.
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