Photobucket has had issues with excessive advertising for several years, there are so many pop ups and advertising that the site has been almost unusable at times without the use of an adblocker. This morning I downloaded all of the pictures from both of my Photobucket accounts, it took more than twenty minutes to access just the Library on one of them and begin the download. As far as I can tell they haven't shut down the 3rd party hosting on either account yet but once they do I will close both accounts. Advertising revenue alone must not be keeping up with costs at Photobucket so they are trying something new, I wish them luck as I suspect they will need it going forward.
On a side note, Pond Boss is one of the few sites where I leave my adblocker turned off, the advertising is not excessive or malicious, and it helps keep the lights on for the forum.
