Photobucket

[1dave]

Wonderful. Everything I have loaded there for the past 4 years has only filled 18% of my free account.

Ugh, but now it takes me 15 minutes to log in, another 15-30 minutes to get through all the adds to start a load - and IF I try to get the image location when it first says image loaded, I have to start all over again.

My own fault. I'm too cheep to pay to have the adds removed.

[NDK]

I agree, the ads really pi$$ me off too. Normally I deal with the updates, as I don't use it much anymore. I just muddle through and get it to work. But recently I've noticed everytime I go to load a pic it keeps making me log in. Cleared my history and tried again and get the same nonsense - keeps asking for log in. I decided to walk away from it for now as it's not worth getting all PO'd about. Pick your battles & all that.
(This is on mobile devices, haven't tried on the PC)

BTW I've been on there for 10 yrs or more and last I saw was maybe a touch over 25% of my limit. You'd think being a long time user would mean something...

[captbob]

Just took me a minute and 15 seconds to go from opening another window for photobucket, logging in, going to an existing album, uploading a picture from a folder on my desktop and back here to post the picture.



Took me longer to type the above sentence than it took to do all that stuff.

With only one ad at the opening of photobucket which just took a click to close. No other ads popped up.

[1dave]

Nice Super Grinder! So you paid?

It brings up my account right off, but like NDK said, when I try to upload it goes into a series of searches, then asks me to log in, another series of searches, gets back to me, another series of searches, asks me to select an album, more adds, finally I can select an album. More adds. I select an album, select image on my computer. It then proclaims upload complete - But it is NOT! I have to wait another minute or more until the image finally shoes up. Only then can I capture it's location and paste it any where.

[Pat]

Flickr😄👍🏻

[captbob]

Not my super grinder. Just a picture I had saved for ideas for a future build.

Not a paid account on photobucket. I don't pay for anything I don't have to! Don't understand why it's so easy for me to do when you and others are having to jump through hoops and it takes longer.

[1dave]

Me too! Closer to the source? have a secret buried cable? Assistance from a best friend? You run a bunch of hired assassins?

[gemfeller]

Dec 4, 2016 15:27:36 GMT -5 captbob said:

Not my super grinder. Just a picture I had saved for ideas for a future build.

Not a paid account on photobucket. I don't pay for anything I don't have to! Don't understand why it's so easy for me to do when you and others are having to jump through hoops and it takes longer.

What browser are you using? PB's a nightmare for me with IE but sweet and easy using Firefox with its adblock enabled.

[captbob]

Dec 4, 2016 16:59:58 GMT -5 gemfeller said:

What browser are you using? PB's a nightmare for me with IE but sweet and easy using Firefox with its adblock enabled.

Firefox with Adblock Plus. I would only use IE as a very last resort.

[1dave]

Duh - I never even considered the Browser could be the problem.

Firefox recovers from near-death experience
And Mac owners continue to desert default browser, Apple's Safari

By Gregg Keizer | Follow
Senior Writer, Computerworld | Dec 1, 2016 10:43 AM PT

Mozilla's Firefox backed further from the brink last month, and Mac owners continued to abandon Apple's Safari, new data released today showed.

Also, last month, Microsoft lost another 23 million Internet Explorer and Edge users.

According to analytics vendor Net Applications, Firefox's user share -- an estimate of the proportion of all personal computer users who ran that browser -- climbed eight-tenths of a percentage point last month to finish at 11.9%, its highest mark since December 2015. In the last three months, Firefox has regained 4.2 points, recovering from a near-death experience when in August it recorded a user share of just 7.7%.

Firefox's increases, however puzzling in the face of years-long declines of the open-source browser's user share, were legitimized by three straight months of gains, showing that the recovery was not a short-term counting glitch. However, November's boost was less than half that of September's or October's, signaling that Firefox's rebound has limits.

Safari went in the opposite direction, losing one-tenth of a percentage point to end at 3.6%, the second consecutive sub-4% month. Until October, Safari had kept its head above the 4% water mark for the past six years.

Safari's place as the Mac's preferred browser has also been under attack. The browser's share of all Macs -- Net Applications also estimates global operating system user shares -- slumped to a new low of 54%. Just over half of all Macs owners, in other words, ran the OS's default browser last month.

In the past 12 months, Safari as a percentage of all Macs has declined from 62%, putting OS X and macOS users in the same boat as those running Windows. The latter have abandoned Microsoft's default browsers -- Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge -- in favor of Google's Chrome, the most popular browser on the planet since April. Net Applications' data implied that Mac owners have done the same, with significant numbers dumping Safari for Chrome, or less likely, for Firefox.

Chrome gained eight-tenths of a point in user share during November, putting the browser at 55.8%. Chrome's torrid growth -- in one year, its user share grew by 78% -- has cooled over the past three months, averaging just six-tenths of a percentage point in that stretch. (The three months before that, Chrome gained an average of 2.8 points, or more than four times the more recent period.)

[rockjunquie]

I have FF with adblock, too and never experience a problem that isn't related to the site.

[Fossilman]

My photobucket account is getting full at 87%... Need to go in and start dumping some photos.......
Nice piece of machinery you have there....SCORE!!

[captbob]

Don't dump photos! Can't you just open a different account using a different email address?

Never had to try that, but unless they (photobucket) tracks you using your IP address, it seems like that would work.

[Deleted]

Flickr

[1dave]

I have a problem with Flicker.
Perhaps it is just not being signed up.

With PB I just copy the image location.

Flicker doesn't seem to allow that. So I print screen to my photo editing, save to a folder, THEN load it to PB and share it.