gishzida writes:
"A Reuters release notes that Yahoo Inc will stop letting consumers access its various online services, including Fantasy Sports and photo-sharing site Flickr, by signing-in with their Facebook Inc or Google Inc credentials. The move marks the latest change to Yahoo by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who is striving to spark fresh interest in the company's Web products and to revive its stagnant revenue.
The change, which will be rolled out gradually according to a Yahoo spokeswoman, will require users to register for a Yahoo ID in order to use any of the Internet portal's services."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:53PM
Agreed, mindless facebook integration (or even ID linking) is just plain stupid, as is anyone actually using such.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:58PM
It's great for the websites which do it. If they use the full-blown "log in with facebook" (not the lowly OpenID which TFA is talking about) they get tons of information about the user and if they shell out for the deluxe package they get tons of information on every "friend" of that user too.
Here's a screen-grab of all the different database fields facebook gives to a website when somone logs in via facebook - single-sign-on FTW!2 94880256/photo/1 [twitter.com]
https://twitter.com/TheBakeryLDN/status/427531934
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:15PM
Hmmm, I thought most websites that Do this, do it out of lazyness, (too much trouble managing a log in system) and have no real need of all that data, and wouldn't have the capability of using it even in summary form.
In any event, thanks for the image. Reinforces my point about how foolish it is to log in anywhere with a facebook account.
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(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Wednesday March 05 2014, @09:13PM
I bet a good number of them don't know what to do with it.
But fundamentally they are all just selling eyeballs, this info lets them better quantify those eyeballs and thus charge a higher rate for ads. My expectation is that there are drop-in modules that suck-up that data and re-package it to feed into various advertising networks.