Tell HN: Duolingo (NYSE: DUOL) disrepects your privacy and dislikes questions

After a mandatory signup for a Duolingo account, anyone using their iPhone and Android (and possibly web) apps can add you as a ‘friend’, without requiring any confirmation from you whatsoever. This is mostly just annoying and might be considered ‘typical growth hacking’, but also constitutes a privacy risk: your ‘friends’ are notified whenever you are online, have completed a […]