If you have an old Photobucket account you haven't touched in a while, you'll need to reactivate it to opt out of any licensing deals by setting your account to "private."
Related storiesSitting on a possible AI-training goldmineUnlike other mid-2000s photo-hosting peers like Flickr or Webshots, Photobucket hasn't deleted people's old photos.
Those old images that Photobucket has been storing for all these years — things people uploaded in 2005 and forgot about — are still there.
AdvertisementI have an old Photobucket account from around 2007 that I used for hosting images for an old blog.
Presumably, there are plenty of people like me with an old Photobucket account, largely forgotten — maybe abandoned because we moved the photos somewhere else or simply didn't care.
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Service, Myspace, Business, News Corp, soccer, Flickr, Yahoo
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Denver