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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1836175" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>I set up a GMail account when GMail initially started and one needed an invitation to register an account.</p><p>Never used it until a couple of months ago someone wanted to email me a large file that was too big for my normal email account.</p><p>So they suggested to send it to my GMail account which had been dormant for years.</p><p>I tried logging in and after a couple of hoops and security questions I actually managed to log in - that account was still active after all those years - google never forgets.</p><p></p><p>My main email account is with my small ISP, works well and I'm pretty sure they have no interest, or even the means, to collect any of my data.</p><p></p><p>Yahoo had some major security breaches, I remember the comment was that they don't (or maybe now didn't) even encrypt your password - it was there in plain text for anyone to read; for some correspondence I use HushMail because an organization I deal with requires that - I would not use it if I had a choice, the others I don't know.</p><p></p><p>For my "throw-away" email address I use mail.com, not sure what they track, if anything, they have a paid service that may depend less on user data collection than their free service.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1836175, member: 67742"] I set up a GMail account when GMail initially started and one needed an invitation to register an account. Never used it until a couple of months ago someone wanted to email me a large file that was too big for my normal email account. So they suggested to send it to my GMail account which had been dormant for years. I tried logging in and after a couple of hoops and security questions I actually managed to log in - that account was still active after all those years - google never forgets. My main email account is with my small ISP, works well and I'm pretty sure they have no interest, or even the means, to collect any of my data. Yahoo had some major security breaches, I remember the comment was that they don't (or maybe now didn't) even encrypt your password - it was there in plain text for anyone to read; for some correspondence I use HushMail because an organization I deal with requires that - I would not use it if I had a choice, the others I don't know. For my "throw-away" email address I use mail.com, not sure what they track, if anything, they have a paid service that may depend less on user data collection than their free service. [/QUOTE]
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