Most ISP's provide a homepage, and email service as part of their package. My ISP is Metrocast, a Comcast clone....kinda sorta, not
quite as busy. Although I have a Gmail account, nothing important happens there... My ISP service is strictly POP/SMTP. Though I can
keep Email on the server, I prefer to cleaned out, and keep copies on my PC(s). For tha I use Thunderbird, which is also a
Mozilla creation.
It's just personal, but I prefer to open my browsers with the Homepage I am paying for, not a freebee. I don't particularly care for the
AP based news service..but heck I have a list of news services that suit my politics,