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 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’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.
“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.
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Yes - Microsoft is punk AF
Wat
Hotmail is literally outlook.com.
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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.
I miss yahoo answers.
How is babby formed?
Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don’t feel like changing them.
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…
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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.
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
I miss excite.
My Hotmail is where my personal account is. I trust Microsoft enough to keep it secure and safe.
Yahoo and AOL - disposable.
Because I’m an OG and so is my OG HoTMaiL account.
Why not?
