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The thing that really sucks about Photobucket is that back in the mid 00s they were the king of free image hosting, and thus everyone used it. Now all the forum posts from back then are a graveyard of "This image is not currently unavailable" photos.

Around 2017 they started charging, and I honestly hadn't used it in almost 10 years. But I managed to download all my photos - I can't remember what the trick was, but it was ridiculously easy to get around their racketeering nonsense back then. Then they incessantly started mailing about photos being deleted.

It is a textbook example of scumbag behavior. Wouldn't surprise me if they wholesale sold photos to AI companies, while making the same photos unavailable even to paying customers.