Photobucket

Photobucket went from useful to suddenly deciding that they won't allow hot sharing (exactly what I used to use them for) unless I pay them. This is the single stupidest move they could have made. Way to piss off literally_all_ of your users.

Nope. Done. So many other far superior options available.

If it's not all the ads popping every which way on my computer screen, it's the fact that they now require you to pay for linking your photos to a third-party site. Including previously linked photos. As others have already mentioned, this is nothing less than scandalous, a ransom for photos from years and years stretched across thousands of webpages.

I remember a time when Photobucket was FREE. It didn't even have ads and, if it did, they were minimal. A few here and there isn't even an issue, but when it starts to bog down my computer because of how much crap is trying to load all at once, I'm sorry, but you've hit rock bottom, my friend. Rock bottom.

Now I'm forced to stare at all those stupid Photobucket error messages which serve as constant reminders of how a once brilliant online company sank to the lowest point they could.

I would think twice not only about giving this company any money, but even using a free account as they do not care about security or you as a consumer at all.

My account was hacked and private photos made public. I understand these things can happen and tried to nicely resolve the issue with Photobucket.

They blatantly ignored emails and stopped communicating with me on Facebook. I have filed an official complaint with the BBB (they have an F grading btw) and if that doesn't resolve the issue I will have to hire legal help which is ridiculous since it would probably take them about ten minutes to fix the issue.

Worst customer service EVER.

I have had a Photobucket account since 2008. They charge by capacity and are happy to sell you more storage. But... Downloads frequently duplicate or triplicate the photo and there is no program to clean out the extra pics. Sounds like a conflict of interest.
Also, even though I pay and have all my photos marked private, PB goes through my pictures and deletes what they think is improper without giving me an opportunity to rescue what may be the only copy of an important picture. I dont download porn, but I never even get a chance to see what PB has deleted.
Then there is the scrambling of timelines and having to hunt through 1000's of pics to locate a pic from last week when it turns up back with the 2009 pics
I really am unhappy with Photobucket

I have been with Photobucket since 2008 - lately it is so ad infested that pages won't load, image editor won't load, it pulls and lags my computer. Photobucket has gotten greedy and forgetting main rule in customer service and advertising. Limit ads, be careful of ad placement and remember where you came from. I think the FCC needs to investigate them for false advertising and click through boosting. They place popups so that users click accidently just so photobucket can get their commision from the click through. PATHETIC - I am looking for an alternative and will be removing my files and closing my account

I was a customer since Photobucket first started online and I had no issues with my account for many years. One day I went to log into my account and got a message that they no longer offered free accounts and if I wanted my photos I had to purchase a plan for $5. This is ridiculous! I was a customer for many years and this is how they treat you for being a loyal long time customer? I paid the $5 just so I could access my photos and get them removed from their website and then I got another message saying I was over my allowed storage limit and I would have to pay more money to upgrade to a higher plan if I wanted to see my photos. Are you kidding me? I reluctantly paid to upgrade my account. When I was finally allowed to log into my account a lot of my photos were missing! I contacted Photobucket about this issue and they were no help at all. They said that all of my photos were in my account and they do not delete photos from customer's accounts unless they're asked to do so upon deletion of the account. Where did my photos go then?! Who knows. I never got my photos back. So they took my photos hostage and made me pay twice and still didn't let me have access to all of MY photos. This is not a good way to treat your customers! I would stay away from Photobucket for storing photos because they may decide to take them hostage or your photos may disappear and you'll never see them again.

Cheers for rendering all of my images completely useless with your watermark and paywall, Photobucket. I can understand adding the watermark, but blurring the images rendering them 100% illegible is absolutely absurd. You've made the entire Internet angry, I hope you crash and burn.

The decision to rape every one of your customers using your site for 3rd party hosting only makes sense if 1) you are are stupid, malicious, psychotic, etc, 2) it was done intentionally to drive all those customers and their photos off your storage systems, or 3) both. My bet is on 3). You were too stupid and unimaginative to figure out to make money from your 3rd party hosting customers, so you maliciously tried to drive them all away. My guess is that you concocted this asinine plan because you could not legally just delete everyone's content. You had to make everyone remove their photos voluntarily and delete their accounts. Way to lead with your d! Ck.

I rarely ever write reviews, but I just felt I had to try and contribute in some way here. Photobucket is one of those sites that seem to actively try to make the internet worse. They're more than happy to let pictures hosted with them turn up in google image search, but when you try to view them they want your money. The image will turn up with an image size that's basically a lie, because there's no way you can actually view it at that size, all you get is a tiny, pixelated preview.

For the good of the internet, please stop using, visiting og paying Photobucket, it's the only way to make this problem disappear.

CEO, Ted Leonard, is a douche bag. I have been a photobucket CUSTOMER for years, and have continued to pay their fees as they were regularly jacked-up. Well, no more, there are alternatives. I would love to reduce my Photobucket storage requirements but they provide no efficient tools for doing that. You have lost your customer base with the stunts you have pulled. When I log on now, all I get are ADS, none of my photos. Suck it, Photobucket!

I trusted photobucket as a place to back up my photos, over 75,000 of them. I went to their site wanting to see a certain photo when I was informed I could not see any of my photos until I increased my membership. I then decided that I would pay it and then move all my photos. They have made it as difficult as possible so that you will spend the $400 to share your photos. They do not let you download entire photo albums just one photo at a time. Imagine how long this would take to download 75,000 photos! I like many others have been using photobucket for over 10 years and it is nothing like it was. Stay away!

I used to upload all my images to them. Now I can hardly log on, and I have to sit through so many ads it's criminal. There is not a heavier advertised site on any website on the entire internet. Adblock says there are between 97 and 450 ads on each screen refresh. It is absolutely criminal. Now I am performing the tedious task of downloading photos one at a time so I can put them on Imgur. Screw you photobucket. Go out of business already.

Photobucket was a useful site in the past. I used it if I wanted to find a get well message for example. I could pull up the one I liked and edit it to my liking via an edit option in the drop down menu. That option is no longer the case. So I tried uploading the image to "my bucket". That doesn't work either. I'm just glad I never signed up for the paid subscription. I only used the free option (along with an ad blocker to keep them from spamming me).