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GDPR

Duolingo tries to guess your birthdate

  1. Thanks to GDPR and if you are in Europe, you can request to download a copy of your personal data from Duolingo via https://www.duolingo.com/abc-privacy
  2. The page tells you to send an email to privacy@duolingo.com
  3. Then you receive an email which tells you to go to the page https://drive-thru.duolingo.com/ and click on “Access Personal Data”
    Duolingo Access Personal Data GDPR Request
  4. You receive a confirmation email and few minutes later another email with a link to download a copy of your personal data
  5. After uncompressing the file “duolingo.zip”, you can see quite a few files.
  6. In particular, you can see in the file “metrics.csv” which shows that Duolingo tries to guess your approximate birthdate/birthday:

    approximate_birthdate,country_code
    YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.fff,XX
    Duolingo metrics.csv approximate_birthdate

    It is kind of funny to see Duolingo trying to guess my birthdate up to the milliseconds!

    Feel free to request your personal data too! 😊
    Please let me know in the comment: how good the Duolingo guess was? ✍️
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Productivity

How to never combine taskbar buttons in Windows 11 23H2

With the version 23H2 of Windows 11, it’s finally possible to avoid having the items in the taskbar to combine:
– Go to Settings
– Then Personalization – Taskbar
– Go to the item “Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels”
– Select “When the taskbar is full” or “Never”

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