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Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No real reason to be using a hotmail account in this day and age, even less so if you're a developer of a direct competitor for Microsoft.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Eh, that's the problem with email - it's much harder to change and migrate, because you can't guarantee others will use your new email, much less find out who somehow still has the old email to send messages to and expects a reply from.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is an argument for having your own domain for emails. There is an annual cost but at least your address isn't locked to a specific provider sokcd you can change some DNS settings to point at a different mail server.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Eh, that's when you just turn on auto-reply/forwarding and abandon it.

    But of course they need to be able to access it to enable auto-reply. :)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This. Don’t ever delete the account because someone will scoop it up and impersonate you. Just set auto reply and log out. Check the terms, you may need to log in every 6 months though. Do that a couple of times at least.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What alternative do you recommend that won't be blocked by Google and Microsoft? I hate Microsoft, but I can't even sign up for a Google account, and everywhere else I've tried is blocked by Google, Microsoft, or both.

    I self-hosted my email from 2006-2021, and do not have the stamina to do that any more.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    If your concern is being blocked, the best advice is to avoid any free email service and pony up for a paid one.

    ProtonMail used to be the big one, but IIRC they had some controversy recently:

    https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/proton-mail-exposing-activists-info-showed-the-limits-of-encryption/

    https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-intercept-proton-mail-says-it-s-politically-neutral-while-praising-republican-party/24456

    Other commenter already mentioned Zoho, but also mailbox.org.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Zoho works well for me with my own domain (though I am on the old free plan that allows IMAP, while today the free plan only supports webmail or their own app). I also know someone who uses Tuta without problems sending to Google and Microsoft.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do they even still issue them? Like prior to ~2007 Hotmail was THE free email to have before Google, like, did it better. But aren't they issuing outlook.com addresses now?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When MS ditched the Hotmail name, they went to their "Live" branding. I have an account with that domain, in addition to my old Hotmail account.

    I wish I held onto my old Yahoo account, but it got so full of spam that it became completely unusable; so I deleted it 🫤

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Apparently Yahoo uses Microsoft Bing for their search backend.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?

    There's Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.

    There's Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I stopped using Hotmail when gmail launched and I was given one of the early invites from a tech relative. I have the welcome email from '04.

    But now I'm looking at moving my emails to a self hosted solution because they have used everything in my >20year email history for Ai and I don’t want that to continue into the future.

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