Photobucket breaking images with 'ransom' demand

[BOAT]

What's a tosser?

[NiceAft]

What's a tosser?

An Australian way to describe an obnoxious S.O.B.

Ray

[Bilgemaster]

I use godaddy, and host my own pictures. No big deal.

Same here, usually. But I'd also use tinypic.com or previously Photobucket (before it got all odious) from my phone or work rig, if I just need to get a quick pic up there on the fly...like answering requests for info on this or other forums about this or that doodad or setup.

[Phil M]

This means that quite a few threads will no longer have photos, almost essential in the mods section.

[Bilgemaster]

This means that quite a few threads will no longer have photos, almost essential in the mods section.

Countdown to receiving that letter of notice of a pending class action lawsuit against Photobucket begins in 3...2...1. Sign up and after the lawyers have feasted, you receive that sweet sweet check a year or two later for $2.14 (Two dollars and fourteen cents). Of course by then the douche nozzles who steered the company into the tar pits in the first place will have long since fled down the ratlines with their golden parachutes to other "monetizable online properties" to run up on the rocks.

[Herschel]

Testing Tinypic.com:

This is really great, guys. Give it a go.

[Herschel]

Tinypic.com is much easier than Photobucket ever was and much faster. Just getting into it, but it looks like a great solution.

[Russ]

Tinypic is simple to use. The only drawback is they force you to watch a commercial and enter a code. I don't mind if it keeps it free.

[BOAT]

Yeah, they almost have me brainwashed to buy Progressive Insurance now - I have had to type their name so many times.

[sailboatmike]

I always think actually writing (emailing) to the advertisers telling them that your sick of their ads and now refuse to buy their product due to the ransom advertising lets them know that their saturation advertising wont boost their sales.

Of course the site they are advertising on has assured them that people love their adverts and it will boost sales, so let them know otherwise

[Herschel]

I always think actually writing (emailing) to the advertisers telling them that your sick of their ads and now refuse to buy their product due to the ransom advertising lets them know that their saturation advertising wont boost their sales.

Of course the site they are advertising on has assured them that people love their adverts and it will boost sales, so let them know otherwise

Having been a small business person myself, I can appreciate that someone has to pay for the hosting. If we don't want to pay for it, it will be the advertisers. And I can assure you, no sane business person wants to pay for advertising that doesn't work. I sponsored sports teams, took out ads in high school newspapers, had bus stop benches painted with my name and logo, and paid the telephone company a ton of money for yellow page advertising. It is really hard to get the advertising right unless you are a big company and can hire professionals and even they screw it up at times. Just sayin'...somebody has to pay for it.

[sailboatmike]

I always think actually writing (emailing) to the advertisers telling them that your sick of their ads and now refuse to buy their product due to the ransom advertising lets them know that their saturation advertising wont boost their sales.

Of course the site they are advertising on has assured them that people love their adverts and it will boost sales, so let them know otherwise

Having been a small business person myself, I can appreciate that someone has to pay for the hosting. If we don't want to pay for it, it will be the advertisers. And I can assure you, no sane business person wants to pay for advertising that doesn't work. I sponsored sports teams, took out ads in high school newspapers, had bus stop benches painted with my name and logo, and paid the telephone company a ton of money for yellow page advertising. It is really hard to get the advertising right unless you are a big company and can hire professionals and even they screw it up at times. Just sayin'...somebody has to pay for it.

I agree 100% someone has to pay for it, but if the advertisement is on such high rotation that it becomes annoying to possible customers then its being counter productive. One good well thought out advert is worth 50 rubbish ads on high rotation, not only do people get sick of the advertiser they stay away from the site, so its lose / lose situation.

I can honestly say that I have never clicked on a advert on the web to "find out more", so throwing all the ads in the world at me wont improve their sales figures.

Im more likely to explore a company or product that is recommended by a reliable source such as other users of this forum and I regularly do, alas many of said products are not available here down under, like the other day I tried to find a distributer of NEWGLASS2 here after it was recommended on this forum but nobody imports it to Australia

[Herschel]

I tried to find a distributer of NEWGLASS2 here after it was recommended on this forum but nobody imports it to Australia

I suspect the maker could ship it to you. They are located here in Central Florida. I ship boxes to my grandson in Japan for about $75 USD of about the same size and weight of a Newglass II kit.