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Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties

by alook on 3/5/14, 4:53 AM with 51 comments

• by kirillzubovsky on 3/5/14, 7:10 AM

  It's alright, Yahoo audience probably haven't heard of Facebook yet anyway. </sarcasm>

  In all seriousness though, this is a good thing. FB login has become so prevalent, that not having it hurts more than it helps. At the same time, they used to change APIs so often, that keeping it working was a royal pain.

  Although it's much easier to implement these days, especially with services like http://hull.io, it's yet another part of one's site/app to worry about.

  Good for Yahoo!

• by null_ptr on 3/5/14, 6:23 AM

  Good! The less that people see Google and Facebook accounts as "Global Internet Identity Accounts", the better.

• by camus2 on 3/5/14, 5:54 AM

  > Still, I imagine the grand plan is to make Yahoo “cool enough” that people will actually want to use a Yahoo ID consistently. We’ll see how that one goes.

  For what? as a consumer,what service Yahoo does offer that would make me want to get a yahoo id?

  As a developper ,Yahoo has a few interesting services but that's it. Yahoo's shopping spree is over but it did not make it more relevant.

• by bencoder on 3/5/14, 10:46 AM

  I tried to sign up recently with yahoo to access a yahoo group and they demanded a phone number which I didn't want to give them, so I gave up.

• by Fuxy on 3/5/14, 10:34 AM

  Who in their right mind would use their FB login on other websites anyway.

  I personally tend to avoid it like the plague.

  Every time you use it you grant another website access to your Facebook profile data.

  I don't think i want to share that.

  Now i know there's some security there but honestly I don't thrust it Facebook is leaky enough as it is I would rather not push my luck by giving permissions to unnecessary things.

• by saltysugar on 3/5/14, 6:05 AM

  My flickr account is created with Google login. I wonder whether they'll force me into singing up for Flickr cause it's the service with most storage for photos out there (albeit the lack of desktop sync).

• by lnanek2 on 3/5/14, 7:12 AM

  I can't remember my Yahoo login, I may have had one a decade ago. I don't really buy their excuse that removing social login helps in any way. As a developer, with social login, I have a username to link everything to just as much as normal server login. You can still have user records in your DB keyed on that, a settings page on your site that stores settings against that user, whatever you need. So how does removing social login improve personalization? I don't think it does. Just sounds like an excuse.

• by blueskin_ on 3/5/14, 8:15 AM

  I wonder how many of the 10 remaining Yahoo users will be inconvenienced by this.

  Seriously though, this is a good thing - third party sign in is a horrible idea and should die.

• by roberjo on 3/5/14, 12:15 PM

  Are we going to move back toward more 'walled-garden eco-systems' to protect the brand and improve internal lock-in of customer cash? Le Sigh.

• by fourstar on 3/5/14, 6:05 AM

  I look forward to this being a trend that continues.

• by stefan_kendall3 on 3/5/14, 1:27 PM

  Unless I really, really, really want to use a service, I only use it if I can login with gmail or facebook.

  I don't have time for your shit registration form or strange password requirements. I'm always logged into gmail and facebook, so those are always one-click accounts for me.

  I understand wanting to become the identity provider, but the ship has sailed here.

• by cordite on 3/5/14, 6:46 PM

  I WAS going to post that the only reason why I'd probably post a comment on this article was because the web is meant to be integrated.

  But it seems they wanted me to sign up for an account first on recode. sigh

  I thought LiveFyre was going to handle that. Hitting back also meant I lost my message.

• by Donzo on 3/5/14, 12:42 PM

  If you want to use Yahoo services, you're going to need to have a hacked email account.

• by mydogmuppet on 3/5/14, 7:57 AM

  I have never been able to sigh into Flickr with anything other than by Facebook ID. All attempts by me/Yahoo to create an Yahoo ID that wasn't locked in some self defeating loop failed.

  I've never been a fan of Yahoo or for that matter Hotmail; they force an ID on you which is then hijacked by their email servers to spam all your contacts...again...and again.

  Why can't Yahoo just die gracefully ? Why do they have to inflict their death throes on Flickr Users ?