Except the reason Altman is so upset has nothing to do with this very valid discussion.

As I commented elsewhere:

Fuck Sam Altmann, the fartsniffer who convinced himself & a few other dumb people that his company really has the leverage to make such demands.

He doesn’t care about democracy, he’s just scared because a chinese company offers what his company offers, but for a fraction of the price/resources.

He’s scared for his government money and basically begging for one more handout “to save democracy”.

Yes, I’ve been listening to Ed Zitron.

Fuck Sam Altmann, the fartsniffer who convinced himself & a few other dumb people that his company really has the leverage to make such demands.

“Oh, but democracy!” - saying that in the US of 2025 is a whole 'nother kind of dumb.
Anyhow, you don’t give a single fuck about democracy, you’re just scared because a chinese company offers what you offer for a fraction of the price/resources.

Your scared for your government money and basically begging for one more handout “to save democracy”.

Yes, I’ve been listening to Ed Zitron.

You are a glass half full sort of person!

It does not really answer OP’s question, but there are alternative OSs for consumer devices. I found one: https://wiki.asteroidos.org/index.php/Category:Watches

We do not collect data from sites and users as claimed by A_norny_mousse@feddit.org.

I have a faint inkling of how a service like yours would work and I do not see any way it could work without doing just that. Since both users and site owners need to create an account.

Seriously stop protesting so much. It makes you look bad.

No misconceptions on my side.

Your business is about three things:

• convenience for the visitor
• web sites being able to signal “we care about privacy”

Both these things are what makes the hype around web privacy/anonymity.
You pinky swear that you don’t sell or otherwise abuse personal data, but you still get class A data about which users visit and deeply interact with which site.
Why should I lay all my eggs in one basket in the first place?
Of course the same could be said about a secondary or tertiary email provider but then quite a few exist who are at least as trustworthy as your solution.

I said your business is about three things; I think it’s easy to see that the first two lead to you growing your business.

About your elaborate emoji- and buzzword-laden replies, let me reply with Shakespeare: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

People have every right and reason to be extremely skeptical about offers like these.

BTW I deleted one of my comments because I realized I was wrong. That seems to have rubbed you the wrong way?

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Regarding those screenshots:

But then visitors immediately have to create an account with pportal .io to actually get at the newsletter/sign-up/etc.?

I had a quick look at your main page but it did not answer that question.

I understand that a web dev who wants to offer this has to open an account or get an api key of they want to use your service.

Also I could not find a link to the git repo.

edit: according to OP’s answer it is as I thought. Yet another company that collects data both on sites and their visitors. Another iteration of the good old Free model a lá Google.

edit2: my personal recommendation is still that people get themselves at least one extra email account with plus-addressing. From a trusted provider of course.
edit3: an option for true aliases would of course be better

In case anyone had the same kneejerk reaction: no, this is not about privacy etc. Just performance, according to OOP.

Still, this reads like a reaction to a recent overblown debacle.

edit: no, it actually does say “hardened security” in the README, lol, but the whole project seems to boil down to some compiler flags.