{"id":21799,"date":"2026-03-15T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=21799"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:13:13","slug":"cancel-your-duolingo-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/cancel-your-duolingo-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"From the time I stopped using Duolingo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was 2024 and I was a Duolingo subscriber. I was also a WaPo reader. Duolingo was feeling shittier and shittier by the day. Then WaPo published an article &#8211; ahh, that&#8217;s why. Now, whenever people ask me why I don&#8217;t use Duolingo I send them this PDF:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"real3dflipbook\" id=\"1_69f446db6078e\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve since cancelled my WaPo subscription too, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/annals-of-communications\/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post\">obvious reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 2024 and I was a Duolingo subscriber. I was also a WaPo reader. Duolingo was feeling shittier and shittier by the day. Then WaPo published an article &#8211; ahh, that&#8217;s why. Now, whenever people ask me why I don&#8217;t use Duolingo I send them this PDF: &nbsp; I&#8217;ve since cancelled my WaPo subscription [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1443,1444,1445,740,1442],"series":[],"class_list":["post-21799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-language","tag-pdf","tag-wapo"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-5FB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21799"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21815,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions\/21815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}