Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'

Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by rchaud on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:18PM (#35124866)

Linux is the exception that proves the rule.

While it is completely free (beer + libre), Google and Facebook exploited numerous Linux-related technologies to turn the internet into a planet-scale ad machine.

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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by denton-scratch on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:57PM (#35126179)

I apologise for my pedantry, but:

> the exception that proves the rule

To prove the rule is to test the rule; proof spirit is spirit that passes the test, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The exception that proves the rule is the exception that violates it (and shows that the rule is a heuristic, not a law).

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