[thomastjeffery]

Don't worry about cookies or bother using a VPN, because... you are being tracked anyway? What's the point of including such a defeatist stance?

> the real world across industry, academia, and government.

Gotcha, so no one here gives a shit about privacy. They only care about avoiding the inconveniences of fraud and leaked secrets.

Use a password manager and a feature-complete adblocker (ublock origin on Firefox). Send messages over end-to-end encrypted channels. Use a VPN along with your adblocker and some kind of cookie/browser-id isolation if you don't want your traffic stalked.

[golem14]

BTW, I really would like to have a way to partially clear cookies – i.e., I don't want to be signed out of gmail, and maybe not out of the Mechanic's Bank of Alaska or Amazon or Netflix, but most other things could go. I don't think this is easy in Chrome, Safari or other mainstream browsers, is it?

Yesyes, I do know that Big Ad can mostly stitch together some proxy profile of me anyway, but it would be more blurry.

[thomastjeffery]

Firefox has a great feature for this: multi-account containers. The UI is trash, but it's usable.

[dolmen]

Just use a separate browser profile for your critical accounts.