“If you have philosophical, moral, political or aesthetic reasons that prohibit you from using Yahoo! products or services in good conscience, then you shouldn’t use Flickr.”

So, yeah, Stewart, people might have some objections to their personal data (and by personal, i mean photos of the interiors of their homes, their children, their families, addresses IP and otherwise, etc) being collected and disseminated whilly-nilly by all those wonderful people who share the Yahoo! dental plan with you.

And it’s not as if I’m not bent over a proverbial barrel here; Flickr’s message to me as a paying customer is clear: All that you’ve contributed to this community is ours, and if you want to keep it, do as we say. Or leave ALL of it behind.

TH, *please* give us a handy migration tool that moves all our photos and every piece of metadata you can to Zooomr.

I love Flickr – hate teh Yahoo!

I’ll bet this has to do with the fact that, technically, this isn’t a photo.

We’ve gotten a lot of signups from people who take screenshots of WoW, or their web browser, or whatever and post them to Flickr so they can blog them… And Flickr comes down hard on them because they’re not photos.

I can’t say for certain whether they’ve closed accounts for this, but we’ve gotten complaints about photos being removed, and NIPSA is probably a gentler version of this same issue.

It may very well be in the Flickr ToS that you can only use photographs, I haven’t bothered to check.

Anyway, my 2 cents. Betcha Zooomr gets plenty of Flickr refugees who just want to blog their images, regardless of their photo content, too.

Don MacAskill