did photobucket relent?

[Kali]

14. they are up to something

found this on their FB page -

Your photos have been set free!
Photobucket has a new management team with a renewed commitment to providing the best, most cost-effective service to our customers. As of today, your photos are live and we have a new, affordable pricing structure for hosting services. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/2L4XhSw

From their support page - https://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004314254-Welcome-to-the-New-Photobucket-

Photobucket has new management, and we are liberating your images!
As of today, your hosted images are live.

Photobucket has a new management team that wants to do the right thing. We are committed to earning back your trust and offering comprehensive and flexible image storage and hosting options for our customers. We’ve taken your feedback and made some changes to our pricing model that allows us to offer competitively priced plans that fit the needs of all of our customers.

For a limited time, our current customers’ hosted images have been restored and Photobucket is introducing a new pricing plan that is built around everyone’s needs.

In an effort to improve our customers’ experience, we’ve also moved away from an advertising-based model and have eliminated a portion of ads from the site.

Photobucket pioneered the image sharing and hosting market 15 years ago, and our new management team is committed to returning Photobucket to the premier imaging service people had come to know and trust.

There are more positive changes on the way, but for now we are excited to share this new compelling subscription option, as a testament to our dedication to you, our valued customers.

and it seems they have indeed instituted new, more reasonable plans - http://photobucket.com/plans/

comments at the FB page are still mostly angry. man they did fuck up but if they have released images I guess that is cool. probably when you verify email they will be contacting to pay and if you don't I suspect they will be blocking them again. will be watching to see what happens.