Photobucket-hosted images will now cost you US$400 a year to share on third-party sites

 

If you’re one of the many users of the internet in the early 2000s, you were probably reliant on Photobucket. The image hosting service used to have free, ad-supported accounts that will let you share those images around the web. It was attractive to small retailers because of that feature. Now, though, the service seems to have “taken hostage” the images of its users as the service quietly changed its terms of service. The change has affected some images put up on shopping sites like Amazon, EBay, and Etsy, as well as many forums and blogs.

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