Online photo storage?

I'm wondering about online photo storage. Specifically, what does anybody know about places like Photobucket or similar places where you can load images to place on forums such as this one. I don't need anything extravagant, just a place to do what I described above. Do forum members have any experience with this? Are there places to avoid? "Good ones?" "Bad ones?" I've checked out a couple and they seemed a little intrusive for what I wanted. I don't see the need for "them" to need to know where I am or where the picture was taken. Any advise, either where to look or on work arounds will be appreciated.

I just use Google because I have a Gmail account. You get 15 gigs of storage for free. I'm at 14 gigs now and I've had a gmail account since it was beta.

Do you have OneDrive access? Or, Google Drive as Irving said. NSA will also store as many of your photos as you want. :D

I use Dropbox, it works well for moving large files between the office and home and it also allows me to keep photos in the cloud. My guess is pretty much any online photo or file storage is going to work fine. I know people that swear by imgur, but they also use reddit.

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Originally Posted by CavSct1983

NSA will also store as many of your photos as you want. :D

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Yeah, but they won't let you link directly to them with BB code.

I just use imgur. Super easy to use and you can control access to your photos.

Google photos. I moved (copy) of all my digital up there and I can see/search it on my phone. Photo recognition is scary good. I pay for 100gb storage for like $1.99 month or something like that.

Great to just take a photo and later that night it's automatically uploaded to google and safe. I don't really give a hoot who is looking at it. Nothing to see really. Just old family photos.

Now the NEW google app is killer (Photo Scan app) - you can scan your old paper photos with your phone and instantly get them uploaded to google drive/photos. I've not tried to do a bunch of them yet, but they claim like 100 scanned items in 10 minutes. My test one or two, it worked really slick.

Not Amazon.

I was using Amazon drive to store all my RAW/DNG and catalogs (360 Gigs) as off-site backup. One day they decided that they were now taking all my photos, moving them to a new service they just launched called "Amazon Photo" - which they are saying is a new image sharing site (think Flikr) and were going to make all my photos public. Yeah me! Fuck that. I'll publish what I want thankyouverymuch.

Fighting with them about it now, and how they now say they have an interest in my photos, and don't have to delete them - because I *gave* them an implied right to use since I put my photos into their new service (which I didnt).

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Originally Posted by asmo

Not Amazon.

I was using Amazon drive to store all my RAW/DNG and catalogs (360 Gigs) as off-site backup. One day they decided that they were now taking all my photos, moving them to a new service they just launched called "Amazon Photo" - which they are saying is a new image sharing site (think Flikr) and were going to make all my photos public. Yeah me! Fuck that. I'll publish what I want thankyouverymuch.

Fighting with them about it now, and how they now say they have an interest in my photos, and don't have to delete them - because I *gave* them an implied right to use since I put my photos into their new service (which I didnt).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ23kosLFec

Photobucket used to be good for sharing photos on message boards and such. But lately it's gotten so buggy that it's almost impossible for me to use.

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Originally Posted by asmo

Not Amazon.

I was using Amazon drive to store all my RAW/DNG and catalogs (360 Gigs) as off-site backup. One day they decided that they were now taking all my photos, moving them to a new service they just launched called "Amazon Photo" - which they are saying is a new image sharing site (think Flikr) and were going to make all my photos public. Yeah me! Fuck that. I'll publish what I want thankyouverymuch.

Fighting with them about it now, and how they now say they have an interest in my photos, and don't have to delete them - because I *gave* them an implied right to use since I put my photos into their new service (which I didnt).

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I have Amazon Prime Photos and this is news to me. I (thought I) carefully reviewed the TOS to ensure they didn't lay any legal claims to the content I uploaded but I could have missed it. Do you have any links to their policy W/R/T the "implied right" BS? (I'm not doubting you at all, I just want to find out more about this)

BTW for online backup I use Crashplan. I like it because it's simple, reliable, unlimited, and I get to create/keep/change the encryption key. I got it mainly to protect my Lightroom catalog.

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

Photobucket used to be good for sharing photos on message boards and such. But lately it's gotten so buggy that it's almost impossible for me to use.

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Agreed. Very sad.

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

Photobucket used to be good for sharing photos on message boards and such. But lately it's gotten so buggy that it's almost impossible for me to use.

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I was just going to post this. Too many popups, ads, and sloooooow.

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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

I just use imgur. Super easy to use and you can control access to your photos.

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Very easy site to use.

Thanks for the input. You gents have mentioned several sites I didn't know exist. As my computer doesn't have the Microsoft Office suite sometimes I have to take extra steps when downloading/uploading images and pdfs. I don't know if that is the real culprit or not but that's the way it seems. I was reminded that I used Dropbox for some stuff years ago and that seemed to work. If I find something that works out quick and easy maybe I can post a few more images here.

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Originally Posted by Irving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ23kosLFec

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[LOL]

Not Photobucket, but not for the reasons listed above.
I used them for years and had MANY photos stored there. They "upgraded" their system and I lost access to my stored photos. Months of fighting with them trying to get back to my pictures produced NOTHING. I lost all of the photos I had on there. Then with the flood of 2013, I lost a lot of the disks the photos were stored on. Gone forever.
Photobucket can KISS MY A$$.

Flickr has always worked for me.


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