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.
Why not?
“Free” signups, website registrations, and bullshit like that gets my Yahoo address. Real human beings and important things like my bank gets my real email.
Why not?
I don’t like being up to my elbows in some conglomerate’s ecosystem, and Hotmail is now counterculture
Hotmail is literally outlook.com.
Yes - Microsoft is punk AF
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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.
I still use Hotmail because I have a billion accounts linked to it and can’t be arsed to change the address.
Same
Same, I’ve had that Hotmail account for almost 25 years, I’m not sorting that out 😂
They’re great for account emails
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
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.
I changed everything I pay for, anything free/not an hassle to change/recreate I did. You sure are busy online shiiiit
If you have used your mail for over a decade it’s very easy to get over 130 accounts.
I have over 480 items in my password manager. Not all are unique accounts but most are
You do know that you can use + in your Gmail address to create as many virtual accounts as you want without having to create a separate email account for each service?
Example: lud@gmail.com and lud+tmobile@gmail.com will both go to lu@gmail.com but give you option to filter them into separate folders.
Managing a separate email account for each service must buy incredibly time consuming.
The reason I use Proton is to have a unique email for every account that cannot be used to find my original email address, and that I can delete at a moments notice if said email somehow gets on a spam list. Nobody except me knows my main account email. The + method does nothing for me.
I don’t believe they were referring to unique email accounts, but to unique accounts in their password manager.
Which means a few hundred accounts to move to a new email address.
I’ve got an OG Hotmail address with my actual name and without any garbage characters.
I use it for so many things that I can’t go change it now. But I’ve started to use aliases when signing up for online services
I don’t care. It’s an email system. Yahoo is what my whole family knows and it is exactly the same for me as my Gmail.
I’ve had my Hotmail account since 1999 when I was in high school and it still works well enough. It’s what 99% of my accounts or web presence is tied to. I still occasionally get emails from old friends or forum members I haven’t heard from in years who only know me at that address.
I’ve spent (to me) a significant amount of time getting the folder structure, auto-sorting rules, and junk mail filters set up the way I like them. I just can’t be arsed to do that all over again for some new address that will also be considered uncool in a few years time.
I do have a couple more ‘professional’ emails, like first.last@respectableprovider.com, but they just forward to my Hotmail account anyway.
My Hotmail is where my personal account is. I trust Microsoft enough to keep it secure and safe.
Yahoo and AOL - disposable.
It’s my spam account. If I have to sign up to some service, the yahoo account is why they get.
Because I’m an OG and so is my OG HoTMaiL account.
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!
Don’t some of those services delete your account after a couple years of non-usage?
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…
I don’t use hotmail but have considered it. I’m probably going to move to protonmail instead for the better privacy. But what’s wrong with using hotmail, and what do you think people should use instead? Hotmail is essentially outlook online nowadays, a very sophisticated email client with a few advantages over gmail, if that’s what you’re comparing against.
Why not?
TBC, I don’t use the MSN homepage or the Yahoo! homepage. I go directly to the email account.
I mean, should I change just to change and not be associated with what “old people” use?
Sure, I could use Proton (guess what, I do! You can have more than one mail account!) but all the contacts I know and all my accounts are tied to the old mail address. Some of the people are older and getting them to change my contact info is more pain than it’s worth. I’m not going through all the accounts and dealing with the change of email, 2FA emails, and likely password change demands. Despite my account being under the prying eyes of Big Data, they’re stable. Odds are my account will still be operating in a decade, and using a newcomer comes with the possibility that they’ll disappear or just be bought up by Big Data.
