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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.
Try Language Transfer. It's a very different approach from rote memorization.
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/