It's Photobucket trying to get people to pay premium to post images.
Huh, blurring doesn't happen on phone. Weird. Chrome on pc and phone.
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. You can still go directly to the URL and see the picture. I rehosted mine on imgur since they can be uploaded anonymously and let you submit the image to be hosted via URL, skipping the download and re-upload step.
Thanks for the info, I honestly didn't know that.