Ian Coldwater 👻🌿Jul 20, 2024

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.

Show threadDaniel Melzak
@ian Thanks for the PSA. They make it easy to delete the account if you don't agree to the new terms.
Jul 20, 2024 at 11:54pmWeb
Show threadBernJul 21, 2024

@TeamLinux01 @ian there's at least that. It kept telling me I couldn't delete my account without logging in, which I couldn't do without agreeing to the new policies, but clicking "confirm to delete your account" didn't throw up any error messages.

Got a confirmation saying my account is scheduled for deletion, but it may take up to 30 days to actually be deleted.

Show threadCarnildoJul 21, 2024
@TeamLinux01 @ian Sort of easy. I had to confirm four times, each with a different sales pitch for their paid services.
Show threadToddZ â“‹Jul 21, 2024

@TeamLinux01 @ian I can't get anywhere without logging in, and can't log in or get a login link without agreeing to new terms. Am I missing something?

#photobucket

Show threadDaniel MelzakJul 21, 2024
@toddz @ian I used the one-time login from email. Then when I clicked the link, it asked for me to agree or disagree (delete account).