PSA: delete your old Photobucket account now! Don’t put it off.

You know those emails you’ve been getting for a year from Photobucket threatening to delete your old account and you were like lol who cares and ignored them?

Turns out they didn’t delete them anyway, they repurposed the business as a broker of biometric data to AI companies and they’re using your old pictures for that. You have to actually go in and delete your account to opt out, and you only have until Monday, July 22 to do it.

@ian they wont let me reset my password lmao 🥲
@alexandria @ian I'm being asked to buy something in order to unlock my account lol
@yelof @alexandria @ian On the account deletion page, there was an option to receive an email with a link to download all your content in a zip file without needing to pay to unlock the account... of course they don't tell you that upfront 😆
@bcbrookman @alexandria @ian I never saw that! One thing I did notice is that when using Firefox, it kept on saying I wasn't logged in, even though I had just logged in. Went over to Chrome and it finally recognized my login/ID (but then claimed I was logged out on the next page!). Was quite a journey, and I'm like 50% sure I just deleted my account 😆
@yelof I wasn't able to log in either, but was using FF. Will try Chrome, thanks!
@bcbrookman @yelof @alexandria @ian
email them asking that you request that all your data be deleted immediately and that they may expect a GDPR action if they do not delete.