Login difficulties

I have not logged-in in a while and have changed laptops. My old one disintegrated. I spent hours trying to login, going in Google circles. The ticket turned out to be to go to preferences and clear the cookies. Apparently, when you "sign out" on Google, the cookies are not deleted.

It is the paranoid side of my personality, but i find this to be ominous. Google always knows who you are, where you have been, and what you have been up to. Life in the future will be totally transparent, as will our souls.