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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    1 day ago

    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.

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    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

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    3 days ago

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

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    3 days 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

  • 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).

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    4 days 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.

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    4 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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.

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    4 days 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.

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    4 days 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.