Fuck shutterfly. They denied a photo of a dog I took because they claimed I didn’t get permission from the owner. It was a picture of my dog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware

Oh I got an email that my Photobucket account was about to get deleted due to inactivity. Huh, forgot I had one, but remember using it as backup storage years ago so what the hell I’ll log in and retrieve them and delete the account.

Nope, the free service I signed up for back then, now requires a subscription to use. I would have to pay, to get back my pictures I stored for free. Fuck That Shit.

Photobucket did the same thing I almost lost all of my photos that I had on it from my early teenage years because I almost missed the email(I was two days from the DDay)

Basically they decided that they no longer wanted their free tier and any photos that were stored on the platform as that tier had a certain amount of time before they would be deleted. The platform heavily tried to convince people who are on the free tier that the only way of getting their photos would be to pay for their premium tier for a month and then cancel but I was able to figure out a way to just download it it was hidden heavily in the settings behind multiple paywall triggers.

They’ve sent those for years. If it wasn’t automated, I’d admire their dedication.

Relevant xkcd, you were warned about this at least a decade ago

Did you plan to use Shutterfly as a storage service? Kind of a weird specific strategy I admit, but they do need to obviously set some criteria for what makes sense to store indefinitely.

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At least they’re honest

next up: “Great thanks we’re gonna sell all your photos unless you pay for a subscription. Gotta keep in business somehow!”