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Service Update: Original & Large Size Download Limitations on Free Accounts, 15 April 2025:
Starting May 15, Flickr will restrict downloads of original and large-size images (larger than 1024px) owned by free accounts. If you use a free account, this update applies to both your own content and to content shared by other free members.
We’re addressing the misuse of free accounts as cloud storage for original files—a practice that violates our Terms of Service and negatively impacts the performance and experience for Pro members. By limiting access to original and large-size downloads from free accounts, we can help preserve the integrity of the platform and continue delivering high-quality service to our Pro community.
It's hardly surprising that they're making this change. I do wonder about what dodgy stuff people have been getting up to — is this a matter of tricky steganographic bulk distribution of data in JPEGs?
Anyway, I still like the idea of paying for a service like Flickr. I pay for email, backups, and I think third most important on a list list that would be photos (although of course, I have a complete mess of self-hosted weird photo hosting as well… I just wouldn't recommend that to anyone else, whereas I can reasonably suggest that people use Flickr and the downsides of it are fewer than most other services).
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