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It's really $400 for the privilege of allowing you to send an arbitrary Referer: header with every request, no? ;-) Sometimes I've run into a similar issue where links I post work fine for me but others have complained that they could only be accessed by copy-pasting into a new window. Those with their browsers' referers disabled or same-domain-only have probably encountered this before. More fun is to "fake" the ref…
(I'm not defending either practice.)
The title is a bit ambiguous to me, so to be clear: the $400 are to activate the service, without which a placeholder image will be displayed instead. It's not "oh, you hotlinked one of our images, now pay $400". (I'm not defending either practice.)
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What about imgur?
Only a matter of time before they do something about hotlinking. Direct image links now redirect to tell you to download their app, I'd be surprised if they didn't start watermarking embedded images or putting ads on them. Reddit hosting images on their own site haven't helped imgur
It's really $400 for the privilege of allowing you to send an arbitrary Referer: header with every request, no? ;-) Sometimes I've run into a similar issue where links I post work fine for me but others have complained that they could only be accessed by copy-pasting into a new window. Those with their browsers' referers disabled or same-domain-only have probably encountered this before. More fun is to "fake" the ref…
Can't you just put the image in an with on?
How is this ransom? You just have to pay money to use their service. $35 a month isn't a lot of money for anything remotely serious. Also, photobucket has a $10 a month plan for up to 100GB of image storage that supports "unlimited linking". Most forums won't need more than that. Nothing about this pricing page looks extortionate to me: http://photobucket.com/pricing Maybe I'm missing something important here, but to…
At more usual numbers of a few million hits per month, cut that by 10x or so
How is this ransom? You just have to pay money to use their service. $35 a month isn't a lot of money for anything remotely serious. Also, photobucket has a $10 a month plan for up to 100GB of image storage that supports "unlimited linking". Most forums won't need more than that. Nothing about this pricing page looks extortionate to me: http://photobucket.com/pricing Maybe I'm missing something important here, but to…
Unlimited linking probably doesn't include embedding.
So, if they were on a lower end plan, something that used to be offered was taken away. After they invested time in uploading and embedding lots of images.
I've been seeing this the past week on a lot of forums that I still frequent. There's one particular car forum where I've been following a guy for the past three years doing a project car build. 80+ pages on the thread, with hundreds of images. Now they're blocked. Several other big threads suffered similar fates. Needless to say, none of them have any plans on paying up $400 to Photobucket. The real loss here is the…
How is this ransom? You just have to pay money to use their service. $35 a month isn't a lot of money for anything remotely serious. Also, photobucket has a $10 a month plan for up to 100GB of image storage that supports "unlimited linking". Most forums won't need more than that. Nothing about this pricing page looks extortionate to me: http://photobucket.com/pricing Maybe I'm missing something important here, but to…
You could pay amazon $35 a month for 100GB storage and about 70m hits per month, or 27req/s sustained for your images... At more usual numbers of a few million hits per month, cut that by 10x or so