[nawitus]

That's a really black-and-white way of thinking about privacy. If using Firefox reduces the amount of logs Google collects about you by, say, 50%, then it's a pretty major gain, even if you're still leaking half of your web history.

[derefr]

How so? I think of it more like a power-law distribution: there are only a few websites anyone would care that I visit, and they're pretty obviously-so when I think about them. Those, the "signal" among the noise, I use Tor for.

Everything else is the same boring noise everyone else generates. The more noise you put out, the less suspicious you look. Nothing says "this person leads a secret life" to the NSA better than having a blank "file" in their automated-dredging system. You want such a file to be full of mundane detail, such that your data doesn't have a different "shape" under traffic analysis than the average 16-year-old who makes public posts about their plans to hang out with their friends at the mall on Saturday.

[nawitus]

Some people care about privacy even for visiting websites that most people wouldn't care that much about.