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Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by spopejoy »

mbo wrote: post #68

Why are we complaining about this as a corporate greed thing? (I do agree that it's bad that there were no images preserved and that component of the post is justifiable) Obviously Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize, and was sold to Fox and then offloaded to some no-name startup called Ontela ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobucket ). The service could have been shutdown completely and the harddri…

> Why are we complaining about this as a corporate greed thing

You answered your own question :)

> Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize

As in, failed to turn free users into VC returns by selling their data or forcing them into a subscription model

> former PE vulture did the math

Self-explanatory

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by nedt »

incanus77 wrote: post #135
ComputerGuru wrote: post #101

Shout out to Flickr! No matter how many gigabytes you had uploaded, you can still access them. You just can’t upload more without a Flickr Pro plan.

No, because I am dealing with this right now. I stopped paying for Flickr Pro after 20+ years and can only download my photos in bulk as 1024px resolution in order to get back under the free plan limits unless I pay for Flickr Pro… which is $82/year. My photos are held hostage unless I pay.

Just tried it out. The data download option in your account settings gives you the full resolution. You need no plan whatsoever.

Re: Want your images back? That'll be $5

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Post by incanus77 »

tedggh wrote: post #195
incanus77 wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because I am dealing with this right now. I stopped paying for Flickr Pro after 20+ years and can only download my photos in bulk as 1024px resolution in order to get back under the free plan limits unless I pay for Flickr Pro… which is $82/year. My photos are held hostage unless I pay.

Have you tried this? "if you ever need a copy of your data, members can always request and download their content, including original files, through the Flickr Data section of your settings."

Tried it today. Don't think it will have my comments, but I'd probably have to write a custom thing to fetch those anyway. I have about 6,000 photos on there so I'll see what happens.

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Post by redeeman »

incanus77 wrote: post #135
ComputerGuru wrote: post #101

Shout out to Flickr! No matter how many gigabytes you had uploaded, you can still access them. You just can’t upload more without a Flickr Pro plan.

No, because I am dealing with this right now. I stopped paying for Flickr Pro after 20+ years and can only download my photos in bulk as 1024px resolution in order to get back under the free plan limits unless I pay for Flickr Pro… which is $82/year. My photos are held hostage unless I pay.

why didnt you download BEFORE stopping to pay? also, why did you have your data ONLY at flickr?

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Post by mannanj »

pixl97 wrote: post #36
mannanj wrote: post #32

There’s a emphasis and repetition of sound bites and empty words in our culture, as though they mean something clear and understandable though it’s really a sound bite and a phrase to ease your discomfort and help you feel better about yourself: corporate greed is one of those words. There is no such thing as a corporation being conscious or taking a will of its own and choosing to be greedy. It’s just a symbol to re…

Tolerating it? No! Greed is good. We've grown this monster from a pup and now it's all grown up and eating people.

Well I don't think it was you or I who did that. It was bourgeois class of people and their descendants convincing a gullible, naive and sick class of people to believe their lies. Their lies are the monster that was grown by them and by people unable to doubt the evidence.

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Post by realityfactchex »

sib wrote: post #229
realityfactchex wrote: post #169

What's the best alternative? Flickr? I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I don't want to use Apple or Google or MS Clouds for various reasons. I do want to support a pure-play, independent-ish, profitable, consumer friendly platform. To upload hires shots and have them easy to tag/share/access among those to whom they may be of interest. I expect to pay, but not through the nose. Reliability mat…

You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years

Following up, after comparing all the options, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
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