I see the picture above perfectly fine using Chrome. No Photobucket watermark, and no blurring. With IE11, I see both the watermark and the blurring.
[EDIT] Okay, I figured out why the images look fine with Chrome for me... it's because I run the Photobucket Hotlink Fix that I installed a couple of years ago when Photobucket first started screwing around. Nice to see this extension is still doing its job!
[EDIT: 12/21/2019] The above image has now apparently been deleted... but that's always been a recurring problem with Photobucket hosted images. However, the good news is that with Cliff's new image upload feature, everyone (no matter what their device) can now painlessly embed images into their posts.
[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 12-21-2019).]
fierosound
SEP 12, 09:59 AM
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Originally posted by fierosound:
... it's because I run the Photobucket Hotlink Fix that I installed a couple of years ago when Photobucket first started screwing around. Nice to see this extension is still doing its job!
Reinstalled the Hotlink Fix for Chrome and Firefox. Pictures are displaying properly now.
First one is "illegally" per PFF rules/ToS use the pic as a link to Photofu..et. (C.P. has posted such somewhere and I not digging thru archives etc.) (URL=h__p://s16.photobucket.com/user/francis44/media/100_1147_zpsbf34cf2f.jpg.html)(IMG)h__p://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b50/francis44/100_1147_zpsbf34cf2f.jpg(/IMG)(/URL)
The rest are simple [img] tags like (IMG)h__p://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee2/txslow6/Fiero/Plenum/1-Preinstall_zps40229818.jpg(/IMG) and PB instant blurs the pic. You can't click an Img and expect anything.
(img)h__p etc is on purpose to make above to show most of the text.
If you watch pic above when you open this page, often shows briefly clean then PB blurs a second later to many people. Pictures in link thread is too far down to see this happening. More confusing instant blur may not work in all browsers or versions of same browser so may never see this.
PB wants their money to host shouldn't shock anyone but people still try to use it free and whine when have problems.
------------------ Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. (Jurassic Park)
Originally posted by fierosound: Reinstalled the Hotlink Fix for Chrome and Firefox. Pictures are displaying properly now.
Thank you!
Just remember "Hotlink Fix" is a band-aid that will break again when PB wants to break it. Same "workarounds" that YT and others scream your pirating videos they have to DL using Video DownloadHelper etc plugins. Is why YT plug-ins needs nearly constant updates/upgrades to work. I'm only surprise that all YT videos aren't DRM enabled not just VEVO etc. Or just quietly lean on FF to block all plugins in the "Add-on Store" to DL or block YT Ads. Remember FF gets most of the money to operate from Google. Google only want FF around to claim Chrome has competition. Same reason M$ saved Apple years ago. Spending money on Fake competition is cheaper then getting sued by FTC EU etc for years.
So make a local copy of whatever threads you might need later. Many old threads before PB crap have no pictures because deleted by user etc at the host site or the host site is gone.
Patrick
SEP 12, 10:53 PM
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Originally posted by theogre:
Just remember "Hotlink Fix" is a band-aid that will break again when PB wants to break it.
Considering that it's lasted two full years so far, this is the most durable "band-aid" that I've ever applied anywhere.
