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posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-little-too-late? dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:53PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @06:53PM (#11459) Journal

    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

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @07:58PM (#11492)

    Mindless facebook integration (or even ID linking) is just plain stupid, as is anyone actually using such.

    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!
    https://twitter.com/TheBakeryLDN/status/4275319342 94880256/photo/1 [twitter.com]

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:15PM

      by frojack (1554) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:15PM (#11495) Journal

      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

        by Angry Jesus (182) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @09:13PM (#11521)

        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.