PhotobucketReviews 211

Listen, I've always known that Photoshop wasn't the greatest, but when I tried to use a picture on another site it just told me I need to upgrade for $399 PER YEAR just to use these pictures on other sites. This isn't image hosting, it's a scam. Besides that fact, the site is out of control with pop-up advertising that you constantly have to clear off your screen and is incredibly slow. Don't even bother, there are many other sites that are faster, less spammy and don't expect money out of your pockets just to host a picture.

Unless you got dooped into paying $400 A YEAR, NOTHING works except the intrusive advertisements and pop ups I have tried several times since they pulled that scam to download and migrate to a better company... I tried using Firefox, IE, Chrome... I might even try other things to get my pictures BACK... that they are currently holding hostage.

What is the point of uploading photos to the internet if I can't share them? I don't want to just send people a link to a photo. I want it inline with the article I'm writing to show someone how to do something. Now that they have disabled being able to post photos on message boards I would say there is ZERO value to Photobucket. I can't believe they would do this to the internet... Now whenever I do a search for how to change the oil in my car and someone has made a helpful review of the process using photos hosted on Photobucket all I'm going to see is their ransom message asking for $400 to allow people to share their knowledge with others. I hope the owners of Photobucket get cancer from all the negative energy that is focused their way right now. This was such a $#*! move...

If it's not all the ads popping every which way on my computer screen, it's the fact that they now require you to pay for linking your photos to a third-party site. Including previously linked photos. As others have already mentioned, this is nothing less than scandalous, a ransom for photos from years and years stretched across thousands of webpages.

I remember a time when Photobucket was FREE. It didn't even have ads and, if it did, they were minimal. A few here and there isn't even an issue, but when it starts to bog down my computer because of how much crap is trying to load all at once, I'm sorry, but you've hit rock bottom, my friend. Rock bottom.

Now I'm forced to stare at all those stupid Photobucket error messages which serve as constant reminders of how a once brilliant online company sank to the lowest point they could.

I'm part of a really great forum started by a kind and selfless individual for Motorcycle enthusiasts. For quite literally years and years members have been uploading information for the benefit of all members and visitors with pictures linked primarily to photobucket alone. Sadly most of the thousands of articles on this forum are now of little value without the pictures that helped explain and guide people through the detailed repairs or modifications being shared.

I hope they pay for betraying the trust of thousands of people, as instantly and without warning as they have done. They have not only broken the links to the photos but held them for ransom. I hope they completely self-destruct unless they find a better solution than blackmail.

I believe sites like these are not exactly obligated to maintain the links they provide to support photos out there on the net, not unless it's in the member contract etc which I doubt you'll find they ever do. So that means any one of the other pic upload & store sites can pull the slime job that photobucket did. One way to protect yourself from the impact of that might be to split your pics up to multiple hosting sites if you're often linking them in various places.

I had about 50 links I just removed that where tagged with a Waring thay no longer offer free third party links for free. They wanted 400 dollars up front! Not Monthly! Took me two days to remove this defacing of my website. Was great until they became greedy. No Waring about the policy change. Their many other image hosing services that are free or charge a lot less and won't deface your webpage.

I would have rated this company a zero but that wasn't an option. I've used photobucket for years and never had a problem until they upgraded their terms a while ago neglecting to inform users that what was once a free forum to access pictures uploaded to photobucket would now require a $399 annual fee. I may have lost some of my pictures but I refuse to pay this absolutely ludaccrious fee to this capitalistic scumbag of a company.

I was directed to this site by the US Army where my son just completed boot camp to be able to see pictures. This site was INSANE with advertisements trying to download. Then, of course, the click button where you could get rid of the ads for $2.49 per month. This was the worst experience I have ever had with a website. I plan to notify the Army and actually have the army try and use the site so they see just how bad this experience is for every new family that has a son or daughter in the service looking to get photos of the experience. The government should locate the owners and press charges for gross negligence or for just being the worst site possible to share their soldiers experience in boot camp phase. This site makes the Army look very bad. PEOPLE SHOULD LOSE THIER JOBS OVER THIS. Both with the Army, with the decision maker that allowed this to happen, AND the leadership that allowed PhotoBucket to become this dysfunctional and unattractive to today's consumer. You will NEVER in my opinion, have a worst experience that the one you will have if you logon to this site!

Photobucket was a useful site in the past. I used it if I wanted to find a get well message for example. I could pull up the one I liked and edit it to my liking via an edit option in the drop down menu. That option is no longer the case. So I tried uploading the image to "my bucket". That doesn't work either. I'm just glad I never signed up for the paid subscription. I only used the free option (along with an ad blocker to keep them from spamming me).