"Privacy, anonymity and security services are deceptive, protect yourself."

This struck a chord with me because lately I have been becoming creeped out by the way I'm being profiled based on my online activity.

I don't like the fact that google, for example, gives me results that it thinks might be of interest to me or that the ads on sites that I visit for the first time are already tailored to my tastes.

Even if you don't allow cookies or you have a dynamic ip, just the information sent by your browser about your setup can be enough, apparently, to attach a unique identity to your machine.

To guard my privacy I had been thinking about signing up for one of the services that offers privacy but as the old phrase says "who guards the guards"?