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.
I still use Hotmail because I have a billion accounts linked to it and can’t be arsed to change the address.
Same
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
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.
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?
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 [email protected], but they just forward to my Hotmail account anyway.
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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.
Yahoo brought the company that hosted my email back then when they had plenty of money, and I never had a reason to stop using it.
I also have a gmail, that is completely unusable compared to it. And an email in a domain registered to me. But from those 3, the only one I don’t use regularly is the gmail.
Hotmail ts my trash email for shopping online, gaming accounts and such.
We have got our own email server and domains for communication with government, medical, banking et cetera.
