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.

      • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukdeleted by creator
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        2 years ago

        Same, I’ve had that Hotmail account for almost 25 years, I’m not sorting that out 😂

        They’re great for account emails

    • radical_larry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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

      • Alk@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        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.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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!

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

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

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
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        2 years 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…

  • JakenVeina@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years 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.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    2 years 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.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    2 years 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.

  • Last@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 years 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.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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.

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    2 years 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

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

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