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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I still use Hotmail because I have a billion accounts linked to it and can’t be arsed to change the address.

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Same

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

They’re great for account emails

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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

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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.

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I changed everything I pay for, anything free/not an hassle to change/recreate I did. You sure are busy online shiiiit

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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.

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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.

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Why not?

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I miss yahoo answers.

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How is babby formed?

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