Google analytics opt-out?

I installed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on 0.9.1 for Safari a while back.
Just now I visited a site (MobileIron) and a specific page there (white paper page) and then moved on to do other things. I did not order the white paper as they wanted to collect my personal data for that. Shortly thereafter, on a completely unrelated web search (KVM switches) I get a Google Ad directing me to this Mobile Iron White Paper page. I therefore suspect that the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on 0.9.1 for Safari does not do what i suspect it should do.
Basically, I want to protect all my family members from all this personal data gathering by Google. What can I do while still having a function web (turning off cookies is not an option, I'm afraid). My cookies are already limited to sites I surf to.
Looking at my cookies I see a lot of cookies and caches as in google-analytics.com, google.ca, google,com, google.nl, googleadservices.com, googleapis.com googlesyndication.com, googleusercontent.com
What can I do to protect my privacy here? Should i use a different browser than Safari?

Your Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on won't shield you from everything because Google Analytics is just one of approximately one (or two) gazillion data mining tracking "bugs" on the Internet.
But if you're serious about privacy, don't get paranoid. It's not that insidious. As a general rule, people you don't know just want to sell you stuff you don't need. So there's no need to become hypervigilant. It's helpful to become informed about how companies are mining your data. And that involves reading.
Time magazine ran an in-depth article about data mining last year. It's still online, so you can still read it at the Time website. There is another useful article at Time about opting out. Privacy Choice is another resource with tools that can be helpful.
(Personally, I've opted out of as much as I can, and in addition, I use Ghostery, which catches a lot of potentially intrusive bugs before they meet my data.)
Good luck.

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Also down there is this link: https://support.google.com/adsense/troubleshooter/1631343?hl=en ...you see the box with this: Advertising industry program participation
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Network Advertising Initiative United States
Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) United States
European Digital Advertising Alliance Europe
Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada Canada
....I clicked OPTED OUT FOR NAI on their link http://www.networkadvertising.org/
...I clicked OPTED OUT FOR DAA on their link http://www.aboutads.info/
...I clicked PROTECT MY CHOICES and downloaded the app.
These 1st 2 links used to have the same trouble and didn't retain ANYTHING and wouldn't re OPT-OUT ANY UNTIL THEY WERE SATIATED - saying I didn't have 3rd party cookies allowed when I did - this took hours.
I sent numerous trouble reports to them that they ignored - then I think I sent one to Firefox and it is much better but still not completely right. Today DAA retains 106 out of 122 and if I repeatedly RE-OPT-OUT successively I can get it to 121 out of 122 - never completely. (currently the one not taking is Accuen Inc. but it changes periodically - makes me think they set one up to take my info and then share it with all of them - lol )
Same for NAI currently I started with 94 out of 96 - next re-OPTED-OUT got it to 95 out of 96 and no further and same co. Accuen Inc (accuenmedia.com ) wouldn't update.
NOTE: I was copy/pasting the list of NON-OPT-OUT'S to them and my own document file to try and find trends/problems...now NAI programmers protected the list from being able to be COPIED AND PASTED!!! That's the opposite of being open and interested in making this work, right? Why would they want to allow us to OPT-OUT of their criminal espionage behavior...RIGHT? (lol) FYI: I recorded that the big one that was always retained before this one was...MEDIA MATH INC.
MANY Opt-outs would drop off while on-line and ALL would drop-off once logged-off. Now it's retaining most once logged off - but it hasn't been long enough to tell if they'll fall back into their bad habits as they've done before...
This has been going on forever for me - I've been reporting this malfunction since 2013.
Of course I downloaded PROTECT MY CHOICES FOR FIREFOX via NAI AND DAA'S links ...http://www.aboutads.info/PMC#protect-your-choices-for-firefox ............they both go to the same place???.....PROTECT MY CHOICES http://www.aboutads.info/plugin/install/firefox....that seems odd...it's as if they are the same entity then. ABOUTADS is DAA'S WEBSITE. NAI'S IS NETWORKADVERTISING.ORG so why would NAI use DAA'S PROTECT MY CHOICES app?
Lastely, I also requested that the COOKIES NAMES BE UNIFORMLY IDENTIFIABLE. All the OPT-OUT COOKIES that are to be forevermore retained on my computer and that I am to trust the EVERY FUNCTION OF - well they all have different COOKIE NAMES!! Most of the names you can not tell that they are OPT-OUT COOKIES!! - SO NOWWW They have created another problem.
We can no longer just "DELETE ALL COOKIES".
PLUS, we can no longer go through our cookies and delete individual ones that snuck through.
Every one of the OPT-OUT COOKIES SHOULD SAY "OPT-OUT" IWITHIN THEIR NAME OF THEIR COOKIE - PERIOD. RIGHT? (LOL) For real. Why was this mess was allowed?
REALLY IN MY OPINION THESE COMPANIES SHOULD BE BLOCKED AT THE LOCAL PHONE COMPANIES LEVEL - IN OUR SERVERS. We should not have to deal with them. Same thing with viruses, malware and such beasts. But I digress.
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2.) JAVA refuses to create updates for WinXP/FireFox/PaleMoon.
3.) DAA & NAI still don't retain ALL OPT-OUT settings and never completely OPT-OUT all companies.
4.) OPT-OUT cookies should be uniformly names with the words OPT-OUT in their titles.
5.) Ad Block Plus 25.6.7 doesn't work for Pale Moon and there is no alternative - (didn't work great in FireFox)
Right now I'm mainly interested in #1)retaining my GOOGLE OPT-OUTS while on line AND while logged off since it is attacking my computer and steeling all the speed until it freezes my keyboard.
Currently I am trying to remember to run through 3. OPT-OUTS every time I log on.
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