{"id":4380,"date":"2017-07-07T22:27:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T23:21:19","slug":"photobucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/photobucket\/","title":{"rendered":"Photobucket in the News &#038; Dead Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 7, 2017:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"bbc_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/business\/technology\/amazon-ebay-images-held-to-ransom-by-photobucket\/news-story\/f5b3efdaa1dfd7cb5c9a62e6ec2520c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amazon, eBay Images Held to \u2018Ransom\u2019 by Photobucket<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, Photobucket went just from free to $400 a year overnight with pretty much no notice. If you see lots of dead photo links like the one below, that&#8217;s why. I do hope to swap the dead links for live alternatives &#8211; and I just did that in a few posts &#8211; but it&#8217;s going to be a long, tedious, and arduous process. I hate long, tedious, and arduous processes. Slow and steady wins the race, but it&#8217;s going to be a long, tedious, and arduous race. Thanks Photobucket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 2018 Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 Photobucket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technewsworld.com\/story\/85458.html\"><strong>reverses decision.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>I had noticed photos that no longer worked had been appearing, like this one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/i827.photobucket.com\/albums\/zz192\/CaptPorridge2\/Fitness%202017\/2017%2006%2001_zpshywzrk6t.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 7, 2017:\u00a0Amazon, eBay Images Held to \u2018Ransom\u2019 by Photobucket Well, Photobucket went just from free to $400 a year overnight with pretty much no notice. If you see lots &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[103,143,144],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-103","tag-photobucket","tag-ransomware"],"views":7265,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}