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Post by ffilz on Jul 14, 2017 13:02:12 GMT -6
It's replaced with a graphic asking me to enable 3rd party hosting.
Disabling add blockers doesn't resolve it.
Other proboards are showing their banners.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 14:09:45 GMT -6
It's replaced with a graphic asking me to enable 3rd party hosting. Disabling add blockers doesn't resolve it. Other proboards are showing their banners. Frank Actually it is asking Finarvyn, to "upgrade" his Photobucket account and pay them lots of money to restore his images in all his posts across the forums. Anyone who posted images with photobucket has had all of their images in all of their posts deleted by Photobucket and now huge amounts of information is missing all over the Internet on forums and other places. It is very similar to blackmail.
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Post by ritt on Jul 14, 2017 14:54:37 GMT -6
It's replaced with a graphic asking me to enable 3rd party hosting. Disabling add blockers doesn't resolve it. Other proboards are showing their banners. Frank Actually it is asking Finarvyn, to "upgrade" his Photobucket account and pay them lots of money to restore his images in all his posts across the forums. Anyone who posted images with photobucket has had all of their images in all of their posts deleted by Photobucket and now huge amounts of information is missing all over the Internet on forums and other places. It is very similar to blackmail. Is this malware or does Photobucket have new owners and/or policy?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 15:30:24 GMT -6
Actually it is asking Finarvyn, to "upgrade" his Photobucket account and pay them lots of money to restore his images in all his posts across the forums. Anyone who posted images with photobucket has had all of their images in all of their posts deleted by Photobucket and now huge amounts of information is missing all over the Internet on forums and other places. It is very similar to blackmail. Is this malware or does Photobucket have new owners and/or policy? AFAIK it is a change by Photobucket. See here for details www.photobucket.com/p500/Posting a link from photobucket to a forum or elsewhere is what they call 3rd party hosting.
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Post by murquhart72 on Jul 14, 2017 16:21:45 GMT -6
Never did trust them. I just keep pictures on my drive and upload when necessary.
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Post by Malcadon on Jul 15, 2017 2:03:12 GMT -6
Yeah, when that started to happen with Photobucket, I could not log-in my own account! I was also having issue doing anything on Photobucket due to them running interference because of my ad-block app, and once I disabled it, the bombardment of ads and pop-ups prevented me from doing anything due to lag. Hell, even porn-sites learned years ago that aggressive ad-spamming, even on non-members, was bad for business! If that is how they treat their regular users, then why the hell should I give them any of my money? Especially since there are a number of free image-hosting sites. And what if I get logged out by accident or had to change computer systems? I would have a hell of a time trying to access something I would be paying for! My theory is that they changed owners and, like with Blip/Maker, have no interest in hosting images, so they are doing their best to run the site to the ground while also trying to scam people out of money. What ever that is true or not, its best to stop using them and not give them a dime. They are not worth it!
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Post by waysoftheearth on Jul 15, 2017 3:04:15 GMT -6
It is very similar to blackmail. I believe it more closely resembles extortion
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 15, 2017 4:30:14 GMT -6
Yeah, sorry about that. As folks have noted, it's a photobucket issue and I refuse to pay them for an upgrade, especially when I was getting this for free. Hopefully we can find an alternate free site to host images soon.
As I go to various boards I find that images in my signatures have all gone away, too. What a pain.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 15, 2017 4:51:18 GMT -6
Fixed it. I am awesome.
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Post by waysoftheearth on Jul 15, 2017 5:33:14 GMT -6
Could this be the opportunity to upgrade the banner image?
The picture quality and small size of the booklets has always seemed a bit of a lost opportunity. Perhaps it would be appropriate to include a 2nd Ed Chainmail and 1st-3rd print LBB covers? Might it also include a Holmes cover?
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Post by 18 Spears on Jul 15, 2017 6:45:25 GMT -6
Yeah, sorry about that. As folks have noted, it's a photobucket issue and I refuse to pay them for an upgrade, especially when I was getting this for free. Hopefully we can find an alternate free site to host images soon. As I go to various boards I find that images in my signatures have all gone away, too. What a pain. free sight & allows thrid party hsoting village.photos/
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 9:03:03 GMT -6
It is very similar to blackmail. I believe it more closely resembles extortion You are correct of course!
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Post by tkdco2 on Jul 16, 2017 1:36:19 GMT -6
I also keep seeing an ad asking me to disable my ad blocker. It appears at the bottom of my screen.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 16, 2017 3:54:58 GMT -6
Could this be the opportunity to upgrade the banner image? The picture quality and small size of the booklets has always seemed a bit of a lost opportunity. Perhaps it would be appropriate to include a 2nd Ed Chainmail and 1st-3rd print LBB covers? Might it also include a Holmes cover? If someone wants to create one that I like and send it to me, I might be able to upload it. I agree that the image quality of the current one has degraded somewhat. Otherwise, I may tinker with a design,. I also keep seeing an ad asking me to disable my ad blocker. It appears at the bottom of my screen. No idea about this. Proboards has ad and no-ad levels and the no-ad version costs money. We're still operating in "free" mode, so it's possible that some of that stuff won't ever go away.
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Post by foxroe on Jul 16, 2017 4:30:47 GMT -6
If someone wants to create one that I like and send it to me, I might be able to upload it. I agree that the image quality of the current one has degraded somewhat. Otherwise, I may tinker with a design. I nominate Zenopus ! He makes great little collages.
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Post by tkdco2 on Jul 16, 2017 21:06:09 GMT -6
Here's the ad that keeps appearing: And if I click on it, I get this: It seems to be in all the forums that uses proboards.
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Post by Malcadon on Jul 17, 2017 6:30:55 GMT -6
It seems to be in all the forums that uses proboards. Yeah, same here. I keep my ad-block on out of protest for what they are doing on another forum I'm apart of. Their draconian rules on profanity and nudity, no matter how tasteful and artistic, is an even greater obscenity. I refuse to support them, if they act childish like that. My disgust with them is such, that if I was to start-up my own forum, it would not be with them!
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Post by scalydemon on Jul 17, 2017 7:58:03 GMT -6
Call the cops!
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Post by Malcadon on Jul 23, 2017 3:18:15 GMT -6
I found this online. It really captures how I feel about them:
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