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by Centigonal 811 days ago
Photobucket is a morally bankrupt shell of its former self. They send constant emails with extremely urgent subject lines threatening to delete your photos unless you sign up for a $5/mo plan. They do this even if your account doesn't contain any photos.
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This is funny. If they delete your photos then they lose their lever for getting you into a payment plan. Except they'll probably email you a recurring one-time offer to restore your 'deleted' photos for a nominal fee.
> threatening to delete your photos unless you sign up for a $5/mo plan

What's morally bankrupt about that? It costs money to host your photos and they're a business that can decide to charge their customers any rate they think the market will accept.

I have no photos on their service and they've been emailing me weekly since last year with URGENT and ACTION REQUIRED.