Thorgi Duke of Frisbee

Yes. Since the 90s it's been easy to get free email. I already have 3 active accounts that aren't GMail. Tracking itself isn't unforgivable - it's just the forced login tied to more personal information that Google does. It is literally and demonstrably following my account, as it displays my account name and automatically logs me in. Bing doesn't do this to me - by default, I only accept cookies from the site I'm visiting so that may limit it, but it makes no differen...

...difference to Google; there's no stopping it without logging out or flushing cookies every time I visit one of their sites.

Bringing ISPs into it is spurious, since that varies and there's no real proving that they track what I do. For one thing, I don't query their DNS servers, and they do not see anything I use SSL for - just the fact I connected to a server address.

Sounds like Google has the Annie Wilkes thing going on...