Very sad at number of useless posts
I have looked at MANY of the posts on this forum and I have to say it is very sad that so many of them are now totally useless to mostly useless due to photobucket messing up. Would have been avoid...
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proxim2020 wrote:Im fully aware how internet revenue works, and I say one more time... Photobucket has not gotten $.01 off of ME.... is that better? I could care less if they place ads on a picture link I postSCVJeff wrote:
Photobucket makes ZERO off of me.
Read my post again. Photobucket has made plenty of money off of you and millions of others. Another example, Facebook made roughly $20 off of each user in the last quarter alone which totaled to $8 billion. How do they do this? Users spend time creating post, sharing pictures, playing games, etc. Users do these things while viewing ads and utilizing sponsored content. When posts and pictures are shared with the outside world, even more people are drawn into the system, which makes more money. This is how these services can offer you access free of charge, but in actuality they are not free at all. There's a lot of money tied up in hardware, bandwidth, and data centers. When a user decides to leave, boycott the service, or significantly reduce their use then those dollars leave with them. Remember MySpace and GeoCities?
There's no such thing as a free lunch. While no money has left your hands to use the service, the service is still making money off of you which pays their bills and makes a profit. The little gear often doesn't realize the larger machine that it's part of.
BTW- Whoever was looking at IMGUR TOS, it appears they too are disallowing hosting. And to the poster who said there are plenty of free hosting sites out there, please list them, because that doesn't appear to be the case anymore. Might need to dig up an old PC and roll one..
