Platforms and power

Visualises the growing terms of service employed by tech platforms, as well as the declining survival rates of websites.

Use + Remix rights

These charts, as well as the analyses that underpin them, are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. This includes commercial reuse and derivates.

Data in these charts comes from :

• The Wayback Machine, which has archived the terms of service of several major tech platforms over time.

Please attribute 360info and the data sources when you use and remix these visualisations.

Reproduce the analysis

We typically publish graphics using Quarto notebooks, which can be found in the*.qmd files. Quarto allows reproducible analysis and visualisation to be done in a mix of languages, but we typically use R and Observable JS.

You'll need to:

• Download and install Quarto
• Download the install R
• Satisfy the R package dependencies. In R:
  • Install the renv package with install.packages("renv"),
  • Then run renv::restore() to install the R package dependencies.
  • (For problems satisfying R package dependencies, refer to Quarto's documentation on virtual environments.)

Now, render the .qmd files to the /docs directory with:

quarto render *.qmd

Help

If you find any problems with our analysis or charts, please feel free to create an issue!