# What does it take to view images on photobucket?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-it-take-to-view-images-on-photobucket/662916 "2013-07-08T05:19:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-it-take-to-view-images-on-photobucket/662916/12 "2013-07-08T16:38:30Z")

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I just remembered that I [asked the OP’s question 5-1/2 years ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449020):

> [@Photobucket.com - can't load images](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photobucket-com-cant-load-images/431187/1):
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> Sorry for asking this here, but [photobucket.com](http://www.photobucket.com)’s Contact page is no help at all.
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> My question: Is that site using some sort of Windows-only technology to serve up photos? A lot of people here (and on other forums) are providing links to their photos on that site, but I haven’t gotten a single one to load in Safari on my Mac.
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> I can load various pages on the site without a problem. If I click on a link to a photo _within the site itself_, the photo’s page loads, but not the photo itself. If I click on a direct link posted here, I get nothing at all.

But nobody answered me. I’m leaning toward what **arseNal** said, about some links being to the mobile version of the site.

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