Well I'm gradually moving to imgur anyway.

Me and my beloved mother after we prayed at the famous Istiqlal Masjid, circa 2010.

Me and my ride, circa 2010. The house is in the background.

My brother, my mother, and me at home.

My Sansui AU-7900, sitting next to the Falcon 3.0 box.

Me and the famous world music singer/composer Ayu Laksmi after she autographed my Svara Semesta album I just bought. It was a gala dinner in 2011 where my mother was one of the honored guests, I was merely escorting my mom.

Me at Shangri-La Mactan Resort, Cebu. Yes, I was still a smoker back then.

A very messy cupboard.

Is photobucket being shut down?
If so, I'd need to download at least 3 albums or so as I kept forgetting my login details and ended up just making new accounts 🤣

^^ as discussed, they seem to have banned hotlinking from free accounts. Considering this is ~98% of the reason anyone used their site at all, I suspect they've been losing money for years and this is a cynical, last-ditch cash grab attempt to stay afloat. Expecting them to file for bankruptcy in the near future.

xjas wrote:

^^ as discussed, they seem to have banned hotlinking from free accounts. Considering this is ~98% of the reason anyone used their site at all, I suspect they've been losing money for years and this is a cynical, last-ditch cash grab attempt to stay afloat. Expecting them to file for bankruptcy in the near future.

Cheers for the headsup 😀

Or maybe it's just a cash grab.
I ditched Photobucket years ago as it was getting more and more bloated.
I do have the original pics, but missing pics in threads on the net make for poor reads 😵

"Hey guys! I build a retro rig! Here it is!

*insert dead links here*
Hope you enjoyed it!"

I've already seen one person on some other forum who seems to have coughed up the $39.99/mo or $399.99/yr for their own personal hotlinking, as they had hotlinked Photobucket images in their signature. Said person also seemed to be obsessed enough with Johnny Depp to be posting with a Jack Sparrow avatar, a signature bar with a dozen of Depp's different characters, and a custom title of "Mrs. J Depp".

kode54 wrote:

I've already seen one person on some other forum who seems to have coughed up the $39.99/mo or $399.99/yr for their own personal hotlinking, as they had hotlinked Photobucket images in their signature. Said person also seemed to be obsessed enough with Johnny Depp to be posting with a Jack Sparrow avatar, a signature bar with a dozen of Depp's different characters, and a custom title of "Mrs. J Depp".

I did see a couple pics of mine that were still visible, whilst from another account they were blocked.
Don't assume they must've paid up, I sure as hell didn't 🤣!

I think there was some bandwidth limit thingy? But anyway, I don't really care, I downloaded all pics I could find (I did check a couple to see if I got the correct images and not that blocked Photobucket-pic) after kinda having url-hacked my way to an overview of my accounts, then figured the easiest way without actually having to log in would be that slideshow and rightclick every pick, save as, done.
I actually enjoyed going through those pics again, hadn't seen many of them for years 😁

edit: Actually, this question still hasn't been answered 🤣!
Is it this way

or this way?

pics taken from my Photobucket as I downloaded it

kode54 wrote:

I've already seen one person on some other forum who seems to have coughed up the $39.99/mo or $399.99/yr for their own personal hotlinking, as they had hotlinked Photobucket images in their signature. Said person also seemed to be obsessed enough with Johnny Depp to be posting with a Jack Sparrow avatar, a signature bar with a dozen of Depp's different characters, and a custom title of "Mrs. J Depp".

😳 So Photobucket's money-grabbing scheme works anyway. Well at least on some people.