I still use the Yahoo! mail address that I registered in the year 2000. Around 2008, back when it was still a decent mail experience, I actually paid something like $25 for a pro account for a year, just to support them somehow. The payment hid the ads in the sidebar.
Oath went all in on mining the data and showing me useless promos. I have a gmail account that I use for all my personal correspondence now, but my yahoo account is registered with 20 years worth of signups and accounts. I have been counting the days where I have to figure out how to migrate all those accounts to a different email. When I need to do that, it will probably be under a domain that I own so that I never have to go through with it again.
I forwarded any emails that contained info I might want to search for. When tabs got good with Gmail I pretty much stopped using Yahoo for signups and the like. Whatever still defaults to Yahoo isn’t anything I care much about at the moment.
I should have a backup address but I should probably just use Microsoft for that.
Oath went all in on mining the data and showing me useless promos. I have a gmail account that I use for all my personal correspondence now, but my yahoo account is registered with 20 years worth of signups and accounts. I have been counting the days where I have to figure out how to migrate all those accounts to a different email. When I need to do that, it will probably be under a domain that I own so that I never have to go through with it again.