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Old 12 October 2017, 01:47 AM   #1
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Icon6 Photobucket workaround hack

If anybody is still annoyed by photobucket hijacking the interwebs by holding ransom over external linking to pics hosted on their site... supposedly there are some browser extensions that will spoof the server into not denying you service.

Only for google chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...fegnfnflicjjgj
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...bifiaedg?hl=en

& Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ix/?src=search
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Old 12 October 2017, 03:05 AM   #2
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Read the reviews before trying.

I have seen on other forums that this will not work for long.

Best to download all your images from that site and simply stop using them
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Old 12 October 2017, 03:10 AM   #3
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I just pay the minimum fee. Annoying, but everyone is monetizing their sites so what can you do?

For example, I want to watch the new Star Trek Discovery TV show, and CBS charges a minimum subscription fee of $7 a month (with ads). So I googled pirate sites (VPN) and every single one charges a subscription fee.

And freaken Netflix carries STD in every country in the world EXCEPT the US.

These subscription fees really add up. Very irritating.
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Old 12 October 2017, 03:15 AM   #4
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There's been a few cycles of these workarounds, so I hear. I seldom get to surf on any computer these days, haven't tried any plugin.

Agreed shouldn't use photobucket but it's good to revive old pic-heavy threads, especially useful ones like tutorials.

Some forum softwares are also automating grabbing every pic used and rehosting locally. If a workaround is able to access photobucket linked image, hopefully some whitehat knight will code some handy gizmo that will archive all old pics & keep them visible.
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Old 12 October 2017, 03:18 AM   #5
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I just pay the minimum fee.
You paid the ~$400 or thereabouts? PB wasn't just demanding a "reasonable" monthly fee, thought they wanted a whole year paid in advance too.

Sux to be all those lazy fleaBay vendors still showing photobucket broken links. You'd think they've heard by now
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Old 12 October 2017, 05:53 PM   #6
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Seems to work well at this moment it does.
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Old 12 October 2017, 05:58 PM   #7
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Seems to work well at this moment it does.
neat! what's your setup, chrome on windoze?
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Old 12 October 2017, 06:06 PM   #8
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neat! what's your setup, chrome on windoze?
Using Crome on Win10 I used the bottom link extension, all pictures are back in below forum link well I can see them.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...bifiaedg?hl=en


https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=309522
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Old 21 October 2017, 04:11 AM   #9
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Thanks for the advice. I do post pictures over the Tapatalk app.


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I've fallen back onto my flickr account.. it's a tie-in with yahoo/yahoo mail.
It's always up and running unlike you see with Imgur.. Used to use google photos but they did the same thing as PB.
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Old 21 October 2017, 05:41 AM   #11
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Using Crome on Win10 I used the bottom link extension, all pictures are back in below forum link well I can see them.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...bifiaedg?hl=en


https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=309522
I don't see your photos without the ext.
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Old 22 October 2017, 12:19 AM   #12
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I don't see your photos without the ext.
Yes they are gone for me now it was short lived so not much of a workaround, I use Imgur now seems thats still works.
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Old 22 October 2017, 12:03 PM   #13
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Cat & mouse game.

Fwiw This one says fresh from 16 Oct
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...eidknhlf?hl=en
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Old 22 October 2017, 10:47 PM   #14
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Cat & mouse game.

Fwiw This one says fresh from 16 Oct
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...eidknhlf?hl=en
Why continue to waste your time?
You can download all your images off their site and move to another where linking is allowed.

I did this with my images and moved them to Flickr.
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Old 22 October 2017, 10:58 PM   #15
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Why continue to waste your time?
You can download all your images off their site and move to another where linking is allowed.
I did this with my images and moved them to Flickr.
It's not just for pics that you have control over, although even that going back to edit every old post with new photo link would be real PITA.

It's more for ancient threads with PB linkage from other posters that we may need to refer to, now or in near future

Some of these posters might no longer frequent that particular forum. (And some, sadly, might no longer even be with us in the land of the living.)
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