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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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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Because I'm an OG and so is my OG HoTMaiL account.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

“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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Been using hotmail a lot lately to figure out why some emails my company is sending out on behalf of one of our customers aren't being delivered to hotmail.com (and outlook.com, live.com, msn.com, etc) accounts. The customer we're sending email for is Microsoft.

Hey they got good spam detection at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Free and easy to use. However, I do prefer proton, torbox, dnmx, and morke.org with pgp encryption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I miss excite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don't feel like changing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's my spam account. If I have to sign up to some service, the yahoo account is why they get.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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.