After vaguely announcing changes a few months ago, Yahoo has decided that it
will stop accepting Facebook and Google logins at Flickr as of June
30. The move is part of Yahoo's emphasis on getting rid of its
reliance on its competitors and trying to draw customers directly
into its user base.
Yahoo started accepting other services' logins at Flickr three
years ago after the photo-hosting platform had been in decline
for some time. Two years ago, Mat Honan at Gizmodo wrote about how social media sites like Twitter and
Instagram were eating Flickr's photo-sharing lunch, and even
its utility as a photo archive was dwarfed by dedicated
cloud-storage and syncing services like Dropbox. Flickr has since
had a redesign, and Yahoo is ready for the site to stand on its
own.
Yahoo is encouraging Flickr users without a Yahoo account to
create one, and it's telling users who already have one to connect
it before June 30 rolls around. The company hasn't indicated when
it might remove Facebook and Google logins from the rest of its
services, but this is likely the beginning of a slow, firm push for
users to finally get in the Yahoo water.
This article originally appeared on Ars Technica
Thursday, June 12, 2014
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