Some appreciate the convenience and customized feel that cookies bring to web browsing. Others prefer a more anonymous existence; foregoing the personalization of their experience –being recognized at favorite destinations– in order to limit the collection of data about their online habits. If your key ring is a fistful of shopper loyalty fobs, you probably don’t care about online tracking. If you fear paper trails, change passwords constantly, keep cash in your mattress, know what an onion proxy is, and avoid daylight’s revealing glare, you’re probably more than a little concerned about privacy (and that knock on the door may be Homeland Security with a demonstration of real tracking). If you’re like most, you rest somewhere in between.

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