Brent's and LRFs comment got me to thinking and here is what I found. I use Chrome as a browser, with an ad blocker to avoid those annoying popups. Googling "workaround for Photobucket pictures" led me to a Google extension "Photobucket embed fix". I installed it and it seems to work. I closed Chrome and rebooted my computer after installation. To test, I went back to about page 140 of old posts and was able to see the majority of photos on Michael's posts as well as others.
Time to waste several days of my life saving these as a webpage on my backup drive.
Your mileage may vary, but for now this does seem to be a temp fix for some if not all of the problem.
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Edited to add: the ad blocker extension I use is "AdBlocker Ultimate" from the Chrome toolbox.
Last edited by Thaine; 09/25/17 12:42 PM.
