Yahoo also launched a controversial recycled email program last year, which reassigned Yahoo IDs that had been dormant for more than a year. It also announced a number of acquisitions and initiatives at CES, including news summary app Yahoo News Digest, reworked advertising offerings, and image-heavy websites Yahoo Tech and Yahoo Food.

Since Meyer joined Yahoo in 2012, the company has launched redesigns of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Finance. Current Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer's reversal of this is yet another move to focus on personalization and customization in order to boost advertising. Yahoo did not immediately respond to InformationWeek's request for comment.įormer Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz opened Yahoo services to people using third-party credentials in 2011 to tap into competitors' enormous user bases to increase traffic to the company's own sites. Some noted the inconvenience of managing an additional username and password while others reported difficulties today in switching to a Yahoo ID. In Flickr's official thread for questions related to this change, many users expressed their displeasure with the move. 'This new process, which now asks users to sign in with a Yahoo username, will allow us to offer the best personalized experience to everyone.' 'Yahoo is continually working on improving the user experience,' a spokesperson told InformationWeek. If you have more than one Flickr account, you will need to sign up for additional Yahoo accounts to access them.īack in March, Yahoo said the move away from third-party logins would provide users with a better experience. You can link only one Flickr account to a given Yahoo account, the company said. Yahoo will either take you through the steps to sign up for a new Yahoo account, or ask you to connect your existing Yahoo account. The next time you sign into Flickr, Yahoo will prompt you with two options, depending on how your Flickr account is configured.

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