I still use my 20 years old hotmail address (OK, I don't really use it anymore... but I still get some mail from newsletters I'm subscribed to), but I read it from thunderbird so I never need to use the ad-ridden web interface.

Then again I would not see the ads anyway. In the case of the tweet we're discussing, I would probably have opted for the "bigger ads" which seems more easily removed by uBlock origin.