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Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!

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Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
Tiberius Offline
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Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 2, 2010 at 9:45 pm
This was originally reported by the BBC as a story on porn sites that track users by accessing their browser history (via a browser bug). It is a massive invasion of privacy.

However, reading the actual paper, I found that the website Answers in Genesis is listed as one of the non-porn sites that hijack a user's browser history.

Epic fail! XD
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 2, 2010 at 9:51 pm (This post was last modified: December 2, 2010 at 9:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Why is answers in genesis not a porn site? Is genesis not pornographic enough? Not that I am against pornagraphy or anything.
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 2, 2010 at 9:56 pm
We don't want to offend Naomi Russell by comparing her to AiG...
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 2, 2010 at 10:01 pm
(December 2, 2010 at 9:56 pm)theVOID Wrote: We don't want to offend Naomi Russell by comparing her to AiG...

I am not proposing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.



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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 2, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Porn serves a purpose....more than I can say for those aig shits.
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 3, 2010 at 5:09 am
What is the purpose of porn?
Its ok to have doubt, just dont let that doubt become the answers.

You dont hate God, you hate the church game.

"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 3, 2010 at 5:54 am
(December 3, 2010 at 5:09 am)solja247 Wrote: What is the purpose of porn?

Well, it's more fun than the bible, and less bloody.Cool Shades
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 3, 2010 at 6:17 am
(December 3, 2010 at 5:09 am)solja247 Wrote: What is the purpose of porn?

To be a source of evil and hate and to hold humanity back from achieving it's full potential for thousands of years...o wait, no that's the other one. Silly me.
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 3, 2010 at 8:26 am
What about youtube, financial, movie and plenty of other websites do you single out the religious one. What's the harm in gathering information about your audience. When you have a message isn't who your audience is important information to have. Why assume it's nefarious in nature? Especially when religion is nota bout keeping secrets, but sharing openly.
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RE: Answers in Genesis website hijacks web history!
December 3, 2010 at 11:07 am
Because none of those other sites sell themselves by pretending to offer special insight into an imaginary fount of probity.
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