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I should have known if the apps free, you're the product. Duolingo appears to harvest the most data compared to other language learning apps.

Source: Surfshark Research

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is how it works, yeah. Very good point. Nobody needs to be actively malicious or conspiratorial, and it's silly to imagine people being that conniving: The most profitable matching algorithm on a dating app just happens to be ineffective for most people, and whoever happens to stumble on that algorithm first ends up making the most profitable dating app -- no need to know why it works, just that it does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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