Photobucket changed terms of usage to sell your photos (via biometrics) to train AI and opting you IN by default

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Photobucket has announced it will change the terms of usage for other service and automatically OPT YOU IN by default (if you do not reply to them in 2 weeks) to allow them to use biometric information (any information that can identify you including face, fingerprints, body, specific aspects of your description, etc) to train AI AND TO SELL THE RESULTS TO OTHERS (of which you will not be compensated or informed by). There is no Opt Out button or option and you have to contact them directly and deal with them, though it's probably going to be refused their service).

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OPTING OUT REQUIRE ACCOUNT DETELTION ... meaning they are changing the terms of service by refusing service if you don't agree to the changes you did not signed in for when you made the terms of usage and service.

Looks like every single company will be going down the road of changing the terms of sales/usage/service AFTER the sale/initial contract/service agreement ... while most seems to NOT GIVE YOU A DISAGREE OPTION (LG TVs for example) OR DELETE/BRICK/TERMINATE YOUR PURCHASE/DEVICE/SERVICE.

Example 2.0:
Nike can brick shoes because they don't want to support or open source their app after purchase.

Example 3.0:
Bankrupt electric car manufacturer has features locked to cloud access that will no longer work, owners of the car can't even open their car roof. "Can't see the cloud because of The Cloud"
 
I don’t keep up with all this nonsense really, but it seems generically like this is what most cloud storage companies are or will do. I’m happy I no longer rely on cloud storage, en lieu of a home based networked drive I can access via an app as easily as I could have accessed Google photos. I can also share albums with others. And no one is invading my personal drive on my home network to train the robots.
 
I don't bother with cloud storage either, SSD/HDD space is cheap; One-drive, Google Drive, iCloud, Creative Cloud...no thanks.
I'm not a fan of operating systems wanting to synchronize EVERYTHING between my devices either, forcing you to have accounts for that specific service.

I admit I have a DropBox account to ferry some large content between locations, but it rarely gets a workout.
 
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