Comment Re:On tracking (Score 4, Insightful) 111
Your traffic is always being tracked by cookies, government spies, whatever.
Please stop with the "sky is falling" routine - it only makes the problem worse and the stakes are too high to just throw your hands up in the air and give up in blissful ignorance.
Even https exists to serve this purpose. Certificates are just another cookie.
I suspect that, at a basic level, you have a fundamental misunderstanding as to what a "certificate" is and does.
1) A cookie is an identifier that allows you to tie numerous http(s) sessions together by domain. It can thus be used to track you by having many sites contain images or content from a common domain. (EG: doubleclick.com)
2) A certificate is used to negotiate a private session with a single domain. It's provided by the server and validated by the client to set up an encrypted connection. It allows you, the user, to verify that you are connected with the correct domain and *not* a nefarious person. The use of HTTPS and certificates foils the Verizon "supercookie" as they have no meaningful way to pierce the encryption provided between you and, say, Google.com.