What is the is_gdpr cookie?
Detecting users from regions where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 15 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Analytics
- Belongs to
- Yandex.Metrica
- Set as
- First-party on 40% of sites, third-party on 60%
- Typical lifetime
- 13 months (vendor says: 1 year) — about what the vendor documents
- Where it's common
- 60% of the sites that set it use a .ru domain.
Sites that set is_gdpr before consent
The highest-ranked 15 of 15 sites.
- dzen.ru3 tracking companies
- yandex.com0 tracking companies
- ya.ru1 tracking company
- theatlantic.com4 tracking companies
- gismeteo.ru14 tracking companies
- kinopoisk.ru2 tracking companies
- ria.ru4 tracking companies
- yandex.com.tr0 tracking companies
- yandex.kz0 tracking companies
- voskhod.ru1 tracking company
Show 5 more sites
- yandex.by0 tracking companies
- mk.ru6 tracking companies
- vedomosti.ru2 tracking companies
- iz.ru8 tracking companies
- ixbt.com3 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Yandex.Metrica.
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop is_gdpr being set on later visits. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings stops the third-party kind everywhere, and clearing cookies for a site removes any it already set.
Description from the Open Cookie Database (Apache 2.0).
Understanding this page
- How cookie lifetimes work, and why a 13-month _ga matters
What a cookie's "expires" field actually controls, why Google Analytics ships a 2-year default that many sites cut down to 13 months, and how Safari's 7-day cap on script-set cookies changes the picture.
- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
- How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.