[Closed] Safer browsing

ok, I like my privacy, I don't have anything to hide, I'm not in to child porn or any other perversions, I don't belong to any fanatical religious groups nor do I encourage terrorism, I'm a relatively average kinda fella, albeit a little strange, but I've always been like that. anyway, I don't consider expecting companies to respect my privacy to be a tall order, I do not think it is acceptable for marketing/advertising companies to collect a record of my activity and then sell that data without my unambiguously informed consent.

So cookies, you know what they are, if you don't they are small files websites load onto your computer containing things from username and passwords to what sites you've come from, what you've been clicking on, etc

These are necessary for you to remain logged in to STW, for example, but then there's also a lot more that cookies do, the referral aspect, which is essential for websites to get paid by their advertisers, that I don't object to ether, I quite happy click through adverts on STW rather than typing in CRC for example.

but things like googles tracking cookies are just not ethical, it is an unwelcome intrusion of privacy, yes they offer a service, a search engine, email and others but they keep quiet about the actual amount of information that they are tracking, basically if you're currently logged into google, even if you navigate away from your gmail account or the search engine, it is still tracking your activity. And they sell that information/services based on having that information.

That information is a record of your personal activity, of your interests, your health, your beliefs, your social demographic and your peers.

This all stems from an issue I'm having with being unable to remove a google login cookie which appears to make my Mrs's gmail login be permanently logged in! I did a fair bit of browsing but I'm unable to find a solution, it seems like her log in is being cached some macbook and I've had her iPod touch turned off and disconnected repeatedly logged her out and its still logged in!

so now I'm trying to set the preferences in safari so I visit a site, set to accept cookies (not from 3rd parties) log in so that I get the cookie, then set the preferences to never accept cookies.

if anyone at STW towers could let me know if this will have an adverse effect on their click through I'd be happy to find a way around it?

I'm pissed at having my internet usage tracked, having a large corporate empire basically farming my activity with very little in return.

any suggestions as to a workaround on this?