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Salutations, dear visitor! I am El Thorvaldo, alias Thorvald of Lym, or simply Thorvald. In whatever spare time isn't consumed by computer games, I draw cartoons. I've been doodling since before I was in school, and while I will probably never make a career out of it, it's a hobby I enjoy and continue to improve upon. I've been told I am also a gifted writer, although I have yet to complete anything worth formal publication. The common topics of my musings include comedy, war and geopolitics, and the fantastical/supernatural, which when taken together have provided the foundation for a number of projects over the years.
Those that know me, know me over at CivFanatics as one of the lead contributors to and de facto boss of the collaborative comic, "DRAW Your Own Story". I was also an on-and-off participant in the "Imperium Offtopicum" geopolitical roleplaying games likewise hosted on CFC. Most of what I showcase here has to do with one of these two subjects.
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Photobucket's final nail
18 Jul 2024, 09:00 PM
Let's cut to the quick: Effective July 22, Photobucket is implementing new terms of service, privacy policy, and a "biometric information privacy policy". The gist of these changes are, they will now explicitly mine your content and sell it to AI training.
If you had an account before the termination of free memberships in 2017, you were grandfathered in and your files remain on their servers. The good news is, you can opt out and dump your gallery without submitting to their ransomware threats: Log in with your original credentials and scroll down to the account deletion option; they will are-you-sure you three times and may claim you're not logged in, but this seems to be bugged and following the login link sends you on an infinite loop. On the third page, you will be able to download a .ZIP of your existing gallery. Save your files if desired, then confirm termination. You will receive an e-mail confirming the request.
Account deletion is "scheduled" and may take up to 30 days to process, but as long as you do it on or before July 22, it will fall within the 45-day grace period before they claim the scraping will actually start.
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