This week Yahoo-owned Flickr announced it’s now charging for the service. That’s right, to continue using Uploadr you’ll need a Flickr Pro account, which costs $6 a month or $50 a year if you pay in one go, though a limited-time discount is currently offering 12 months for $35. To be clear, Flickr’s Auto-Uploadr tool for smartphones remains free, at least for the time being.

While the move is set to disappoint users of Flickr’s free tier who’ve been happily using Uploadr since it launched nearly 12 months ago, rival services will surely be looking forward to welcoming a few disgruntled Flickr users heading their way to make use of cloud storage solutions that cost the princely sum of nothing….

Source: Flickr’s wants you to start paying for its Uploadr feature | Digital Trends