In my mind, the issue is how much can we really be anonymous? I argue very little. Or at least much less than we think we can be at first glance. Even TOR (arguably, one of the most anonymous browsing concepts yet deployed) was cracked by law enforcement. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirh...ent-break-tor/ Beyond TOR being breakable, there are only around 900 to 1000 exit nodes. IMO, certainly with in the NSA's or GCHQ's means to monitor. https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ (When you emerge from a TOR exit node, your traffic is not encrypted.) And I'm sure you know that TAILS uses TOR.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are champions of internet privacy. They have a page that lets visitors know how much info they are allowing to be "leaked" when visiting a web page. And this has nothing to do with cookies. https://panopticlick.eff.org/ This page kind of invalidates the theory that if you close down the info leaks, you're safer. What it really means is the less you leak, the more you are unique and probably easier to track.

A good example of being unique is TAILS. How many users are using it? Not many I would argue. Plus, you can't hide the IP address trail (at least not perfectly) when surfing.

Should you do nothing? I can't answer that. I certainly use some information blocking solutions. But I must admit they might not really be all that effective.

A good site for privacy is at https://www.privacytools.io/ Lots of information!