[sfilargi]

$50 annually just to store and share photos is a bit too much for my use case. Half of that would definitely justify it. But I am a very light user.

But other than that I am 100% on-board with this strategy. Get done with the "free" accounts already.

Haven't bother to go through the T&C but I hope they have clause that say they are not allowed to use your data for data-mining/advertising.

[bscphil]

This was my thought exactly. There are hundreds of services out there that make your life just a little better or easier, and I can't afford them all. $50 just isn't worth it.

I think there's a strong case for creating an intermediate tier. $10 a year for 10k photos, but none of the other pro perks would be a pretty fair offer, I think. I'd sign up (well, not right away... I don't and won't have a Flickr account until I don't need a Yahoo address to get one.)