My only negative about Pale Moon is that one guy updates it, and it therefore lags behind Firefox.

I just did a comparison......Chrome used 46% memory and FireFox used 41%. Don't know how much of that is leakage.

I think privacy is now a thing of the past. The only venue they have left to invade is your actual thoughts.

I think about the scene in '1984' where Winston Smith stands in absolute awe when a member of the Inner Party demonstrates that he can 'turn off' the Big Brother Telescreen . He's never seen one turned off before. Later, when he is being interrogated, it appears the device that was 'turned off' may have been recording their conversation the entire time it was supposedly 'off'. Something to consider when you go to purchase your new smart TV or Google TV ... or go to 'update' their software for the first time.

I think only a select few will know any 'real' form of privacy and even that will be limited.

I think the real fear here should be how anyone who tries to obtain privacy will be viewed or typed and that 'If you have nothing to hide..' will become an accusation and affirmation of guilt before or whether any true guilt is proven/exists.

There is no way to put the lid back on this box. There will always be someone who wants to know or feels they need to or has the right to...and they will always find a way.

In fact, the line of thinking (until an excuse was found to change it: "Security") was "innocent until proven guilty", and the Fourth Amendment actually meant something.

The vast majority of users (not the kind posting in a thread here about hypothetical future browser tracking) long ago made the subconscious choice to trade privacy for features and convenience.  I honestly think this issue is dead.  The NSA stuff, which when it first started coming out was supposedly going to change everything related to privacy, hasn't even moved the needle.  Get off the tech sites, the internet outrage bubble and away from the few politicians who are talking to the issue and talk to the average person out in the world and they don't have any idea what PRISM is let alone what else people (government, Google, whoever) might be able to do with their phones, computers, browsers,etc.  

I've done a lot of family & friends computer and smartphone support over the years for dozens (or maybe hundreds, big family) of people and aside from the other tech-interested folks like myself not a one of them even thinks about what's on their phone or computer or what their browser might be doing.  It's a lost cause.  I can barely even get family members to pin/password protect their phones.  Usually I convince them and by the next time I work on their device they've disabled the pin/password.  

The way I see it?  If you connect to anything.......and I do mean anything at all......you have a little less of your privacy each time.  Most of us are now so 'connected' that as Kantok stated any real semblance of privacy has long since vanished.