Maybe from a legal standpoint, but from a practical standpoint, any website who cares to identify you can do so with good probability if they're willing to buy

Maybe from a legal standpoint, but from a practical standpoint, any website who cares to identify you can do so with good probability if they're willing to buy the appropriate databases. Perhaps in some imaginary idealized version of the internet you can just browse sites without it going on your permanent record, but this hasn't been true for a number of years.