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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        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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            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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    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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    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.

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    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

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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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    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

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      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.

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    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.

  • Man… I don’t even remember my Hotmail account details… It might actually still be linked to my Microsoft account. I never use that either; I have logging in on my PC disabled (because Windows 10 Pro can do that).