Like other web giants, Yahoo wants to be your online data silo and to get a sense of your preferences by tracking your Yahoo ID across the Web. That last point is particularly important since Yahoo’s biggest play here is to try and own its users again. Yahoo says it is making the change to better serve its users with features such as easier password recovery, faster customer support, and a unified company login.

The special login page will also let anyone who already has a Yahoo ID, but hasn’t been using it with Flickr, to connect their Flickr account to their Yahoo login. After that, you’ll be prompted to create a new Yahoo account. However, The Next Web reports the deadline is 30 June.įlickr has set-up a special login page for Facebook and Google users that asks you to sign-in one last time with your third-party options. When exactly, Yahoo will dump Facebook and Google logins for Flickr is unclear.

The posting also said that “eventually Facebook and Google sign-in will be removed”. “Starting this month, we will be requesting that everyone use a Yahoo username and password to sign in to Flickr,” Markus Spiering, Flickr’s head of product, said on the service’s forum. Now the company is using Flickr as a gateway for creating a Yahoo account – if you didn’t have one already. Last year, Yahoo tried to attract more users by offering 1Tb of free online photo storage. Flickr is one of Yahoo’s most popular services and since former Googler Marissa Mayer became CEO, Yahoo has been looking to capitalise on the photo-sharing site’s popularity.

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