Every browser out there tracks you in some way or another.
If you accept cookies, you are being tracked.
If you send an email, you can be traced. Emails exist a long long time out in the wild.
If you do anything at all on the WWW your are probably being tracked and traced in some form or another.
If you use a cell phone you can be traced.
Shop at the grocer using that little plastic rewards card and your detailed shopping habits ARE being tracked.
If you live in a cave, wash your clothes and bathe in the creek, grow your own food from wild seeds, trap small animals for food, make your own clothes and shoes and furniture...maybe you can stay out of view of the satellites in orbit or the planes flying over head that may take pictures for Google maps, and not be tracked.
I work in the IT security field. Browsers and the WWW are not meant to be private. They are usually provided free of charge, and financed by the advertising industry. Most use some form of tracking. Chromium based browsers are a dime a dozen...there are many that limit the tracking, but none eliminate all of it. Mozilla based browsers can be loose or tight security wise. Those who have the technical ability can harden all of these to some extent...but to lock them down 100% means that they will not work well.
Most of the tracking is not meant to identify you personally, but your shopping habits for ad placement. And face it, no one is really interested in the particulars of each of the 7 Billion or so who live on spaceship Earth. We greatly inflate our own importance.
The wired (or wireless) 21st Century is NOT the century of privacy. Learn to protect yourself as you can (VPN, 2-Factor authentication, learn how to spot the bad people, secure pass phrases, which cookies are safe and which are dangerous) and get over it.
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