I agree, but I didn't come to this decision until a bit later in my internet life, so I'm slowly unpicking a number of services. These days if a service doesn'

I agree, but I didn't come to this decision until a bit later in my internet life, so I'm slowly unpicking a number of services. These days if a service doesn't support email auth I just don't bother signing up for it. I control my email address and the domain used for it, I can't see a reason to use my old gmail anymore.