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Duolingo

American online platform for language learning

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Nov 25, 2025
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Types of duolingo threats and how to manage them

The dominant documented threat to Duolingo users in reporting is large-scale data scraping of public profiles — a disclosed incident that produced a dataset of about 2.6 million user records and expos...

Feb 5, 2026

How do gamified reward systems like Duolingo’s XP leagues influence the prevalence of cheating and what design fixes reduce abuse?

like ’s weekly XP leagues create powerful extrinsic incentives that can shift user behavior from learning to “winning,” and that shift has spawned a cottage industry of that inflate leaderboards . Pla...

Feb 4, 2026

How does Duolingo detect and respond to bot abuse, cheating, and automated attacks on the platform?

faces a threefold problem: user-created automation that cheats the gamified XP system, malicious bots that scrape accounts via exposed APIs, and the broader industry challenge of distinguishing human ...

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