This is welcome news to longtime Flickr users who are still bitter over the requirement, introduced in 2007, two years after Yahoo acquired Flickr, that forced everyone to use Yahoo credentials to sign in.
Flickr may no longer have the same clout it did in the pre-Instagram era, but many users have been uploading photos to it for years and still use it as an archive for images taken before smartphones became ubiquitous. The Yahoo login system, however, was a lot more tedious than it needed to be, especially if you did not use Yahoo Mail or its other services and constantly forgot your password.
Two enormous data breaches of Yahoo accounts made users even more upset that they were tied into a system that they otherwise never used.
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