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Today I spent an unholy amount of time downloading images, one by one, off of my Photobucket account.

I'd been meaning to back them up since I found out that PB had decided to be horrible and disable all third-party links (AKA any pictures I shared that did not link to Photobucket proper), but had other things on my mind.

First I tried an add-on that re-enables the images. No go.

Next, I went to the source and tried clicking the handy "Download album" link. Nope.

I tried disabling first my adblock, then my HTTPS Everywhere addon, also with no success.

Frustrated, I turned my adblocker back on and went to check exactly how much PB was charging to re-enable third party hosting. I'd be willing to pay ten bucks to be able to download all of the images I cared about, and then I'd be done with that nonsense.

Nope!

The amount of money Photobucket is charging to enable third party hosting? Forty bucks A MONTH.

Forty bucks a year, I might've considered it. But forty bucks a month? HELL no.

And that's how I ended up spending several hours this evening, individually downloading most of the contents of my Photobucket account. The images I care about from my primary "bucket" and all but one of my sub-albums have been more-or-less successfully downloaded. All that's left is my "Original Art" album, whiiiiich includes my "Crafts" sub-album (and thus all of my amigurumi pics). That will be a lot to download, and I don't even want to contemplate re-uploading right now.

But at least I'm getting it done.