I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible

Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by michaelcampbell on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:00AM (#24158779)

reading/writing mail is the easy part. Switching the 10's/100's/more? accounts that use email as your username, with no manner to switch that other than starting a new account from scratch (which for medical, financial, etc. accounts is way more than a nuisance) is where a lot of pain will lie.

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Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by drdeadringer on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:14AM (#24158971)

Oddly enough, I have a few accounts where my login ID is an obsolete email address of mine. Can't change anything about that. However, I was able to log in [with the obsolete email ID] and update my email contact information.

So I have a few Frankenstein's Monster accounts where I log in with something obsolete but get contacted to a current email address.

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Re:I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible by Silhouette on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:16AM (#24158983)

Switching the 10's/100's/more? accounts that use email as your username, with no manner to switch that other than starting a new account from scratch

That's crazy. People change email address sometimes. Surely no major service actually does this?

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