Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250608171624/https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447
Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250608171624/https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447
Cancelled my sub when I found that out. Switched to busuu, comparing the two, busuu and Duolingo seem to have different teachings and I noticed that my ability to understand things (comments) in duo is slowly becoming paywalled on the pro(paid) version… Wtf??! Quality of lessons is also seemingly going down.
Then I heard they are handing user data to ICE (maybe this is a rumor) but it just pushed me away even quicker.I don’t have proof of this so I take this back but am leaving the text so as to give context to the comments below.
They don’t appear to be sharing any data with ICE. The Mozilla Foundation issued a report saying defence contractors were assembling dossiers from publicly available data, including duolingo data.
https://cyberinsider.com/mozilla-calls-for-action-to-stop-surveillance-firms-data-scraping/
Ahhh. I see. So it was some what alarmist. I shall update my comment.
Try Language Transfer. It’s a very different approach from rote memorization.