Thanks A Guy.
The Do Not Track will not survive as intended for one reason; money.

The internet could not exist as it does without advertising money.
I don't believe this Forum would survive without income from advertisements.

Google doesn't spend billions of dollars on systems, hardware and buildings all over the world just to make new friends. They do it to make money with advertisements.
Anything that hinders advertisement is a no go for companies like Google and many others.

Tasteful advertisement in a proper fashion would be welcomed by users of the internet in my opinion.
Advertisement is the life blood of the internet. Tracking is a method use by companies to get the best bag for their buck.

Do Not Track is just another method for tracking. It let others know you are there. If you missed me the first search check this out.

Here I am please nice guys don't track me.

I do agree with this from the article.

But maybe the list should be empty. "There is no such thing as Do Not Track right now," said Mike Zaneis, executive vice president, public policy, and general counsel at the Interactive Advertising Bureau. "It's a gimmicky marketing term," he said.

Money could also be driving companies' refusal to honor DNT, given that their businesses largely run on ad dollars. Delivering ads to the right people at the right time is harder if they're hiding from you.

Cookies!

I've wrestled with the best way to remove my muddy footprints from the nice clean floors on the Internet.

I'm currently using IE 10 as my browser and clear history on exit - everything gets cleaned except
ActiveX Filtering and Tracking Protection data

This approach solved 99% of the issue for me, but it screwed up logins (cookie based) on secure sites (bank)
To solve that I ticked
Preserve Favorites website data

99.9 percent solution since all favorited websites data was preserved.

Settled on creating an IEfavs folder outside of Favorites and moved all links to that new folder
then I created a Preserve folder in Favorites and copied the links I need to keep to Favorites\Preserve
then I created a shortcut in IE Favorites to the other folder IEfavs

Periodically, I move newly created favorites to IEfavs so the data for those are not preserved next time I exit IE.

Any website that I absolutely need to preserve data (passwords, logins, etc) gets moved to Favorites\Preserve

Caveat: cCleaner will clean cookies if you tick that option. I add the required cookies to the Smart Cookie 'keep' processing in cCleaner

It's a bit convoluted, but once setup, it works well for me. No cookies = no tracking!

I get this. When I use this https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Okay; what exactly is that telling me. Do I have a problem that needs a cure.

If I use I.E. 11 I get this.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.p...ion=log&js=yes

Thanks John,

Those cheeky sons without fathers!

Panopticlick results said:

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 4,150,880 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.98 bits of identifying information......

Being unique is not good - my browser fingerprint identifies me to the web site. I suppose this information might be shared or consolidated by a marketing firm.

Very interesting reads
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/0...ry-and-privacy
https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
-> most of the security add-ons mentioned in the above PDF are for Mozilla based browsers

Still, cookies are a start.

Remember I have no degrees in computer science but as far as I know if you are online you can be seen to one degree or another.
As a old Frank Sinatra song stated (That's Life)

Running off to get some ice cream and cookies.