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’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
Why not?
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…
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 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.
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
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 username+spam@gmail.com 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
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 miss yahoo answers.
How is babby formed?
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.
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).
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.
Free and easy to use. However, I do prefer proton, torbox, dnmx, and morke.org with pgp encryption.
