The new Flickr: Goodbye customers, hello ads | TechHive
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Now, everyone has 1TB of storage for free. That’s fantastic for people with free accounts, but there’s no longer an unlimited storage option, and 1TB is less than unlimited by, like, a lot. The new “Doublr” account adds a second terabyte worth of storage for the shockingly high price of $500 per year. (There’s also an account that costs $50 per year that does nothing but hide ads.) Compare this with the old Pro account, which provided unlimited uploads for $25 per year.
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“Yahoo is betting that Flickr will be successful because of ad sales, not because of paying customers.”
This change also takes away all of the community-centric aspects of the business. You can no longer buy paid accounts as gifts for other people, and the Pro badge that appeared by a user’s name as a signifier of their participation is gone.
