People that still use Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, or similar, why?
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 still use Hotmail because I have a billion accounts linked to it and can't be arsed to change the address.
Same
Same, I've had that Hotmail account for almost 25 years, I'm not sorting that out 😂
They're great for account emails
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
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.
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'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.
Why not?
I miss yahoo answers.
How is babby formed?
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...
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 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
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.
Because I'm an OG and so is my OG HoTMaiL account.
Why not?
Yes - Microsoft is punk AF
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Hotmail is literally outlook.com.
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.
“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.
It's my spam account. If I have to sign up to some service, the yahoo account is why they get.
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.
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).
My Hotmail is where my personal account is. I trust Microsoft enough to keep it secure and safe.
Yahoo and AOL - disposable.
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.
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
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.
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
Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don't feel like changing them.
I miss excite.
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.
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.
Free and easy to use. However, I do prefer proton, torbox, dnmx, and morke.org with pgp encryption.
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.