Yahoo has eliminated storage limits on its photo site, but cut the ability to store very high-resolution pictures for free.
Changes to Yahoo’s photo and storage sites have elicited cries of bait-and-switch from users, even as the portal giant opens its photo site to unlimited storage capacity.
In its ongoing effort to balance its free and paid services, Yahoo this month divided its Briefcase file storage service and its Photos storage and retail site, adjusted storage limits and restricted some downloads to paying subscribers. Previously, Yahoo lumped picture files and other files under the same storage system.
As part of that change, Yahoo eliminated its 30MB storage limit but restricted users of its free service from retrieving what it termed “really high-resolution” images — or anything above 480 by 360 pixels — unless they paid for the SBC Yahoo Internet service or Yahoo’s premium Plus service.
That restriction has riled some users, who say their only high-resolution copies of some photos are stored on Yahoo’s servers.
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lynne on Dec 15, 2006 at 7:36 pm
here i am reading this 3 years later and i feel totally screwed. i have been paying for what i thought was premi storage for my photos since 9/2003. I was unaware of this change. now when i cancelled my account and ask them why i was paying for photos when everyone else had it free they replied that i was paying for briefcase. i tried to reply that wasn’t the case when i signed up but customer service did not believe me. so glad i found your post in my research.
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