Just delete it already rule

It's good practice to repeatedly warn customers over a span of months.

Can't tell if you're sarcastic or not 😄
I have moderate to severe ADHD and even -I- find over a quarter of a year an excessive amount of time to consider whether your photobucket pics are worth keeping or not!
- Not sarcastic. I work for a provider, and we warn people of service changes a bunch of times over a period of months.
  Despite this, you will still get a bunch of people complaining that they were never told, we surprised them with it at the last minute, etc.
  A change that deletes customer data brings in legal as well. If one of these people tries to sue for losing their data you want to be able to show that you provided plenty of notice and warning.
  Companies will often "scream test" a data loss change. Meaning you turn it off, but don't really delete right away to see who screams that their data is gone. Anyone screaming gets some short time period to recover the data.
- No, this is the sort of thing for which a company will easily schedule a whole quarter ahead of time, planning not included.
I've been getting this same deletion warning email every week since April 2019. My pictures are still not deleted.
One of these days I'll get around to logging it, I just haven't felt like it in the past 4 years.

We've been trying to reach you about your photo's extended warranty

This aggression will not stand, dude!

For some services sure it would be annoying. But for a service that stores peoples photos this seems like a good thing.

Idunno, has anyone stored anything important with photobucket lately, though?
Im pretty sure that the newest truly important photo that's on photobucket and nowhere else predates all of Gen Z..

URGENT! REDEEM YOUR 100$ AMAZON GIFT CARD RIGHT NOW, OR WE WILL DOUBLE THE OFFER

Lmao I have the same with AWS. I tried a free plan like 10 years ago, then noticed it was only free one month. On the last day I deleted and disabled everything, but I guess something took longer to deactivate because the next month I'm presented a $0.17 bill with a warning of account suspension if I don't pay up (like hell I would).

I still get those emails, twice a month. They go straight to the bin.

I STILL get mails from an online florist I used once a few years ago that my "limited time" credit is going to expire soon 😄

I'm getting a similar series of messages from tinder.

Got one match, went on one date, she's awesome, prob going to delete tinder. But in the meantime it's pestering me twice daily reminding me I've not opened the app since

Fuck photobucket and the absolute wasteland they have left in countless forum posts in every corner of the internet. Sooooo much valuable information just fucking gone because they got greedy and refused to change with the times.

- They could have found a way if they had given a shit. Give the forums the option to take over hosting, or transfer them to an internet archive. Hell I bet there are enough data hoarders that would have been delighted to help ensure that data remained accessible without costing photobucket a dime.
- This is Lemmy, and if Lemmy has taught me anything from the constant repetitive YouTube posts... Then the answer is unironically they absolutely expect that.