Big Hotmail Is Watching

Well, no-one in their right mind ever suspected that Microsoft WASN'T watching your every move, but now, if you use Firefox, you'll probably be alarmed to notice that when you log off your hotmail account, you get this page...The recommended solution to this problem is to turn on cookies - to allow a tracking cookie that Microsoft has now made compulsory if you want to be able to log out of your email. Being something of a paranoid monkey, I would rather pickle my head in vinegar than allow third party cookies from ANY site, so I decided to check if there's a work-around. The official advice is to contact Windows Live support - and give them all your personal details!!! Of course, you don't have to be a genius to guess that once you've told them everything about yourself, they'll just tell you that you need to allow third party cookies!
This problem doesn't happen with Internet Explorer - because they already track your movements through that piece of software.
You don't have to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist like me to be pissed off with this sort of behaviour - what business is it of Microsoft, Google or anyone else what websites I visit?
Of course, if you haven't done anything wrong, you've nothing to fear!