I don't think you browse like I do

Have to mention Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/download

"Ghostery allows you to detect trackers on the sites you visit, learn more about the companies behind them, and control their visibility into your online behavior."

Works in most browsers.

So he has no problem to the government having a back door to read all of his email on gmail.

Would you care to elaborate on this? What back door?

I use Firefox's default cookie policy of "Keep until I close Firefox", which makes it behave like Incognito mode, but also the Cookie Monster plugin[1] which lets me easily whitelist sites or domains with a click to allow their cookies to persist. This is useful for sites like Hacker News so I don't have to login every time, and my bank which requires long-lasting cookies to avoid having to jump through hoops with security questions.

I also use the Ghostery plugin which blocks a bunch of ad networks so they won't place cookies at all, but even if they do, they'll be reset when I close the browser due to the cookie policy.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...

You are right. I don't browse like you do. That would take forever.

I wonder: Are you afraid Google is sitting at home drooling over the fact that you bought your shoes from JcPenny?

You’re not a name, you’re not a face, you’re a knode. a cookie. literally, a number in trillions of records.

Secondly, you sit on the web writing openly about privacy issues, while overtly displaying your information on those "Identity tracking" services you use, like Facebook, which If you spent the same amount of time you spend writing about how Google is out to get you, perhaps would understand that while you're browsing incognito, Google is having a frenzy with your gmail content, building a profile on you that you may never see.

At the end of the day, someone is always going to be collecting information on you, and your information will be again, one dot tied to your one number- among trillions of other records. There will always be internet ads.

To wrap this up, my point is that if you really don’t wan’t to be tracked, then cancel your credit card, pay everything in cash, disable your GPS, avoid connecting via Wi-Fi, forget doing ‘good deeds’ like filling out surveys, or giving your name and number to a blood drive. Oh and completely disconnect your router.