Gettr — a social media alternative for bigots, MAGA cultists, otherwise de-platformed internet trolls, and babbling man-babies everywhere — isn’t run by totally honest people, it would seem. Absolutely shocking, we know.

Founded by a former Trump advisor and partially financed by a Chinese billionaire currently on the lam from the law, Gettr is marketed as a free-speech haven and primarily used by people upset they’re not allowed to write racial slurs in tweets. One of the major selling points since its July 2021 rollout has been its positioning as a privacy-minded company brave enough to stick it to Big Tech giants like Google and Facebook.

And yet. According to a new report published by Talk Liberation Investigates from Yale Law School’s privacy lab founder Sean O’Brien, Gettr still supports two of the largest tracking programs from both Google and Facebook: the former’s AdSense network, and the latter’s incredibly sketchy “pixel” system...

...Those aren’t the only third-party tracking tools employed on Gettr, either. Both AppsFlyer and Countly were also discovered which can collect a user’s “IP address, cell network provider, operating system version, phone model, and both coarse and fine-grained location information,” according to the report.