People that still use Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, or similar, why?

posted 11 days ago

MonkeyBusiness@sh.itjust.works

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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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over_clox@lemmy.world

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11 days 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!

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Sergio@slrpnk.net

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11 days ago

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

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over_clox@lemmy.world

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11 days 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…

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