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.
Yahoo is legitimately still a big deal in Japan, I was surprised to find out recently
Hotmail just evolved into outlook, I know a few people who still use it
My dad is the only person I have come across in at least a decade who still uses his AOL email address
Yahoo is legitimately still a big deal in Japan, I was surprised to find out recently
Yeah, I think it’s a completely different company that owns it now. What’s strange is that it looks a lot more like the 90s Yahoo than it does in the rest of the world.
Because I’m an OG and so is my OG HoTMaiL account.
“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.
I like the fact the I’ve got a piece of internet history with my hotmail.com account from 1998. I don’t use it at all, but I keep it alive for shit that needs Microsoft accounts. Can’t remember how many years it has been since I looked at the inbox. I wonder if it is empty or if it has thousands of junk mail in it.
My real inbox is with Mailbox.org
I’ve had a Yahoo account since 1995 (I think) and I still use it today… For signing up for things that I don’t care to receive spam from on my main account.
I’ve had mine since 1998, when my .edu email was getting deactivated.
I have a couple of gmail accounts too, but the vast majority of my user ids are tied to my Yahoo.
I miss the MyYahoo landing page.
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.
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.
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 [email protected] 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.
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
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
To use your own domain with Proton is paid. So you have to pay for a Proton and your domain in order to do that. It’s really too bad because it would be fucking awesome if I could use my tor hidden service as my domain. That way I didn’t have to pay for it. So my email might be like contact @ blahblahblah.onion.
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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.
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Why not?
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
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
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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.
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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 kept my AOL account because it’s in my dads name. He died a few years ago. I don’t think I use it for anything, but I try to log in a few times per year to keep it from being deleted.
