With few resources and not much spare time, reporter Janelle Nanos and I cooked up this fun scrolly that illustrates some of the creepy ways companies track us – and more. Illustrations are modified stock art exported in a total of 63 layers for desktop portals alone. Dev by Kevin Wall, opener animation by Brendan Lynch.
If stymied by a paywell, these screen grabs are a pale but passable mimic of the app:
