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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.

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midnightwildflower

@ian I deleted all my photos last year when Photobucket started sending all those annoying emails. I tried to login to confirm that I had nothing there, but they require you to accept their new 7/22 terms in order to login.

I sent a support ticket demanding that I be able to view my account before I deleted it. They said that my account appears to be empty and they were sorry that they could not recover any images.

I went ahead with the deletion process and clicked to have them send me all my content, assuming it would be nothing.

Guess what?!? All the photos that I had deleted were still there!