Users
hoping to sign into Flickr and other Yahoo services with theirFacebook or Google accounts
will not be able to do so for much longer, and will be asked to create a Yahoo
ID, the company said.
The
move is the latest change CEO Marrisa Meyer has made to the company's
operations, and is part of an effort to "continually improve the user
experience", allowing Yahoo to offer the best personalised experience to
everyone".
Facebook
and Google sign in buttons will eventually be removed from all Yahoo sites,
according to a Yahoo spokeswoman.
The
first Yahoo service to require the new sign-in process is Yahoo Sports Tourney
Pick'Em, a service focused on the NCAA college basketball tournament which
begins later this month. News of the change to Yahoo's Tourney Pick'Em sign-in
process was first reported by the technology blog Betanews.
In
eliminating the Facebook and Google sign-in features, Mayer, a former Google
executive, is effectively reversing a strategy that Yahoo adopted in 2010 and
2011 under then CEO Carol Bartz.
The
change to the Tourney Pick'Em sign-in process began on Monday, the Yahoo
spokeswoman said, noting that users could still access other services with
Google or Facebook IDs
source: telegraph
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