Tracker experts I've got a question
 

Without a doubt I know I'm being tracked all over the Internet. So obviously I take steps to protect my privacy and keep the advertising crap off my system. But yet somehow I'm still being tracked by both google and facebook! This despite deleting cookies, etc.

So can someone tell me what I'm missing? Is there another step or addon that I can do/use to stop them?

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Or seriously, try using the https://www.ghostery.com/ browser plugin ?

write a custom browser from scratch

don't use google and facebook

Google I don't use but facebook is a necessary evil. I'm just trying to figure out all the possible ways they're tracking me so I can avoid or delete the crap after I use the site.

Ghostery doesn't seem to work against HTML5 local storage and Cache-Cookies via ETags. But I might be wrong

They know where you live ...

They also track voice from phone

Have you tried CCleaner when you shut down? Getting rid of cash helps. Maybe using the TOR browser and or a good VPN as well.

Here's some technical notes about how facebook is tracking. Looks like they're using images to do it.

This is a general overview:<br/>
+ <br/>
+ <img src="etags.jpg"/><br/>
+ <br/>
+ The ETag shown in the image is a sort of checksum. When the image changes, the checksum changes. So when the browser
+ has the image and knows the checksum, it can send it to the webserver for verification. The webserver then checks
+ whether the image has changed. If it hasn't, the image does not need to be retransmitted and lots of data is saved.<br/>
+ <br/>
+ Attentive readers might have noticed already how you can use this to track people: the browser sends the information
+ to the server which it just received. That sounds an awful lot like cookies, doesn't it? The server can simply give
+ each browser an unique ETag, and when they connect again it can look it up in its database.<br/>
+ <br/>
+ And that's what this page does too.<br/>
+ <br/>
+ <b>Technical stuff</b> (and bugs in this demo)<br/>
+ For demonstrational purposes I want to show you what I store without having to use Javascript, which creates some
+ restrictions on what I can do. Because the page is loaded before the hidden image is loaded (ETags on pages do not
+ work very well, you need to use an image), and I want to show the data in the page, we have a chicken and egg problem.
+ To solve this I use your IP address as the common piece of information, but this would not normally be needed.
+ Not that trackers won't use it, your IP is a great method of identification even when you use a proxy, but it's
+ just not required for this technique.<br/>