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Yahoo to End User Access of Services with OpenID

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: 5, Interesting) by istartedi on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:43PM

    by istartedi (123) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @08:43PM (#11507) Journal

    If this means they will start removing scripts associated with FaceBook and Google from their site, then it will be one small step towards making Yahoo what it once was. It used to be a very clean design like... well.. Soylent! True story--I was on Yahoo once and it kept slowing down and even locking up. Usually I just dismiss it, but I was wondering how a major site could have such difficulty. I figured it must be my machine.

    I was able to isolate the problem to the FaceBook "like" button that appeared there. This was with IE and some extra security options enabled. What would happen is the little like button script would go into a loop. A loop! Nevermind that a button shouldn't have to be executing code at all, it actually had something that was looping. I was absolutely flabbergasted. Solution? The server that serves the button, blocked. It's still blocked even though I no longer use IE. This prevents me from viewing a lot of things on FB, although I've noticed I can view parts of FB's pages with Chrome + Notscript + temporarily enabling.

    Of course I'm not on FB, so I don't care. The whole thing could just go "poof" and I wouldn't miss a beat. Actually, it's a bit scary how much money is tied up in huge corporations that could do that and not affect me.

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