I’ve moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I’ll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services.

I currently see a lot less value in the google account than outlook, but that’s because my family does need access to full blown office. Libre office does 98% of what I need, but on occasion I do need office. An install of 2010 would probably meet that requirement as well. Firefox is set to delete cookies on exit, and I do not ever stay signed into these services.

Does anyone else keep free service email accounts around, and if so, what do you use them for? What’s the pit-fall I’m not seeing if I try to restrict them and treat them with the Principle of Least Privileged model?

  • NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    1 year ago

    I just use google as an account to collect spam emails if something asks for an email and I don’t want to give them something proper with a password that I actually plan on remembering.

    • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      This is basically what I do too. Other times for sites I barely use I concede to my laziness and use “Sign in with your Google account” when I don’t really want to hand out my Proton email