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
Oh man, generative AI is going to get so good at c.2006 web forum signatures.
@Tourma @ian I'll be on the lookout for cartoon dollz with the wrong number of fingers!

@shannonkay @ian

They wouldn't let me log in or change my password. Either I already deleted it a while back, they deleted it, or they saw this and the like going around and had a "service error."