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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        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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            If you have used your mail for over a decade it’s very easy to get over 130 accounts.

            I have over 480 items in my password manager. Not all are unique accounts but most are

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              You do know that you can use + in your Gmail address to create as many virtual accounts as you want without having to create a separate email account for each service?

              Example: [email protected] and [email protected] will both go to [email protected] but give you option to filter them into separate folders.

              Proton also supports it: https://proton.me/support/addresses-and-aliases#plus

              Managing a separate email account for each service must buy incredibly time consuming.

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                I don’t believe they were referring to unique email accounts, but to unique accounts in their password manager.

                Which means a few hundred accounts to move to a new email address.

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                The reason I use Proton is to have a unique email for every account that cannot be used to find my original email address, and that I can delete at a moments notice if said email somehow gets on a spam list. Nobody except me knows my main account email. The + method does nothing for me.