The “scare quotes” are not mine but theirs. P. Z. Myers has a post today about the way Answers in Genesis has been tracking who reads it and what else they read, and one of the categories is “Christian” Users.
Read Myers’ post for the full story and the relevant HTML script. And here’s a link to the original report.
Whatever one may think of other things Answers in Genesis has done, they have clearly accomplished one thing effectively: they managed to get the category “Religion” onto a list of those who use web-based tracking technology to violate the privacy of those who visit their web site. Otherwise the list would simply have included porn, media, news, shopping, and things like that. Thanks to AiG, “religion” also appears.
This is obviously a very serious matter. But among the more amusing aspects are the fact that Answers in Genesis’ tracking script categorizes those who visit other creationism-related sites as “Creationist Groupies,” and while the quotes may indicate doubts about whether those who visit other “Christian” sites are “Christian,” those who visit Joel Osteen’s site are placed in the category “Other.”
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