....which might not be to say much but I'm not sure I've heard anyone else saying "Not Me!". That could be down to the non-discolures of course.

I can only get Firefox to do this reliably. Both chrome and opera have their limits and I never found a portable IE that worked properly. Portable because I have no privileges to install software and "from a network drive" so that what ever desktop I'm on I have the same browser environment. Firefox has the bonus of letting me be logged in with the group admin profile and still run my own browser with my own profile.

That's a good point, we should definitely take into account crimes that we can't prove.....

The trick to misconduct is hard work and principles.

Just as I have high standards, integrity and rigor in my professional life I'm also very principled and practice diligence when those standards slip and I have to/want to cut corners.
If you're lazy and stupid in your work, chances are you'll be lazy and stupid in your misconduct too.

Targeted advertising? But not on a computer? Revolutionary...maybe they can patent it.

Humans naturally want to hit each other over the head for dominance and cooperate at the same time. there's plenty of evidence for these behaviours across the whole spectrum of the living world, all the way back to microbes. Google horizontal gene transfer and draw your own conclusions. I suspect that whether you emphasise cooperation or competition is down to your political leanings, personality type or social background.

I got lost at C.

Get some mushroom spores for a couple of quid/dollars off the intarwebs. Soak your book in water for a day and seedit with spores. 2 or 3 weeks later and you have some yummy mushrooms to cook with. There are you tube vids if you need em.

....just saying.

Editors? Slashdot has editors?

Nature abhors a running gag.

...except you, me, some other people that realise the full implications and the paranoid.

I work at a Further Education College (14 years upwards) with some Higher ed students (mature) and everyone's all very interested in my opinions about privacy and footprints in exactly the way any educated, engaged person might be about any interesting and important topic but they don't think it applies in their case.

I also stand up at my desk to work. If anyone asks, I'll tell them why. Everyone is interested and thinks it's a good idea but I'm still the only person in the whole college that stands up at my desk.

Read the TOS...filter out the specifics that people need to be aware of...write a report...move on.

I've reclaimed the word 'Boffin'. I've discretely placed it at the end of my job title in my email sig. If someone introduces me as a boffin I affirm clearly something like: " I am a Boffin, how may I help?" I make sure I capitalise the 'B' in my voice.

Get the boffin in before them and they have no where to go with it.