At the rate at which Yahoo is losing the social logins battle to Facebook, it isn't surprising to find out that Yahoo is removing Facebook and Google sign-ins on Flickr.

Yahoo announced Thursday that anyone who wants to log in to its photo-sharing website Flickr has to use a Yahoo account. For those who already have a Yahoo login, they only have to link that account to Flickr to keep logging in to Flickr after June 30. Those who do not have Yahoo accounts but wish to keep Flickr anyway, they can create a Flickr account or a Yahoo account.

"Hi Flickr User, After June 30, Flickr will remove the option to sign in with a Facebook or Google account," writes Yahoo in an email sent to Flickr users. "Instead, you will be able to sign in using a Yahoo account. To create your Yahoo account, click 'Get Started' below."

Yahoo integrated social logins from third-party websites like Facebook and Google three years ago. With the hundreds of millions of users of these websites, Yahoo believed that incorporating additional access point to its services, even if it came from competitors, could also increase Yahoo's user base. However, the latest figures on social logins reveal Yahoo is sorely losing the battle, with Facebook taking majority of the social logins share. By getting rid of the ability to log in to Flickr using a Facebook or Google account, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Meyer is hoping to increase Yahoo's users.

In its latest quarterly social logins report, social media research firm Gigya says Facebook continues to be the most used online identity provider, with more than half of 58% of all social logins using Facebook. Google gives Facebook a fair fight but still trails behind with 28%. Only 13% of all social logins on computers comes from Yahoo. Twitter provides the 4%.

Yahoo fared even more poorly on mobile devices, which is still dominated by Facebook with 62% of all mobile logins. Google again follows with 26% and Twitter takes 6% of the social logins share. Yahoo is the least used identity provider on mobile, having a paltry 4%.

Flickr, which was acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2005, almost got wiped out after Instagram debuted a better mobile app and knocked Flickr off its throne as the king of all photo-sharing sites. In 2013, however, Flickr made a comeback with free 1TB of storage and unlimited free accounts. 

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