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Imagine creating so many artificial tracking cookies yourself that the real info of what you are doing is hidden in the hay stack. Wouldn’t that make it very difficult to track your real steps?
Yeah and somewhat related is the browser plugin "adnauseam" which doesn't necessarily block adverts, but puts them in a sandbox, then clicks on ALL OF them to generate revenue for the site and muddy your advertisement profile.
Disable 3rd party cookies and plum disable javascript on all news sites, some things will stop working like single-sign on but most you won't care about.
This is fighting with mosquitoes.
There are too many out there and if you confuse or kill 10,000 of them - another 1,000,000 will be born.
Just take basic steps to protect yourself. 90/10 rule in this case - 90% results could be obtained with 10% of effort.