It’s my spam account. If I have to sign up to some service, the yahoo account is why they get.

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

Because I’m an OG and so is my OG HoTMaiL account.

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

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

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 miss yahoo answers.

Why not?

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!

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?

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’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.

Free and easy to use. However, I do prefer proton, torbox, dnmx, and morke.org with pgp encryption.

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Why not?