What are the benefits of using those sites?

I’ve heard Yahoo! is good for stock market trading and financial news, but haven’t heard anything else about any of them.

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I still use Hotmail because I have a billion accounts linked to it and can’t be arsed to change the address.

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Same

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Same, I’ve had that Hotmail account for almost 25 years, I’m not sorting that out 😂

They’re great for account emails

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Free your mind, start over. You’ll be amazed how muxh things you’d think is essential is actually not. Averagely speaking maybe 5 account mail changes and you should be gokd

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My friend, I have to butt in here. Last year I switched from Gmail to Proton, and I have like 130 accounts I had to recreate or switch over. And I still have tons left on Gmail (100+, though many of which are effectively abandoned) so I’m ending up having to use both. Some things don’t let me change emails and it’s a ton of work to recreate them. Like some of my financial accounts or Google and its products, whose ecosystem I am still relatively entrenched in. (Slowly working on getting out of that mud but with a family who is also entrenched, it’s not that easy.) And many more services than those 2 types as well.

I would have loved to just have 5 accounts to chanfe and nothing else.

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I changed everything I pay for, anything free/not an hassle to change/recreate I did. You sure are busy online shiiiit

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Meh, I don’t particularly use it anymore, but I’ve had my Yahoo account for over 20 years, before GMail even existed. My account there still works, but I gave up on actually using them after they shut down Yahoo Groups.

My username on Yahoo is the same as here on Lemmy. Feel free to email me, I’ll promptly never check my email LOL!

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Don’t some of those services delete your account after a couple years of non-usage?

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Apparently not Yahoo, I had actually forgot my changed password for like 7 years, then once I finally remembered the answer to my custom recovery question, I found the account was still up 👍

I do actually check it every few months or so, spam spam spam…

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Yahoo is my trash e-mail account. Any subscriptions or accounts that I don’t really care about, or know will generate lots of spam, go on yahoo.

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Yes - Microsoft is punk AF

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Wat

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Hotmail is literally outlook.com.

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When I hear somebody who has a Yahoo account, I kind of look at them funny and do not send them anything that’s important because if they are likely to use Yahoo, then they probably don’t have very good security practices.

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I use both Yahoo and Gmail, but I prefer yahoo because my account is grandfathered in to using disposable email accounts.

And don’t tell me about username+spam@gmail.com because not every website accepts emails with + in them, and any idiot can run a script to strip it off and get your real email address.

I use this feature all the freaking time and Gmail offers nothing close.

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I used to use Proton and simple login for this but I now own my own domain so I can use whatever address I want as long as it ends with @mydomain.com

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I’m too cheap for this, I guess (proton mail is paid, right?).

I don’t really have a need for my own domain. And anything I want to register seems to be taken anyway. Feels like a bigger decision than picking a tattoo. :D

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