What is the remix* cookie?
Part of a family of cookies (remixlang, remixstid, remixstlid and others) that VKontakte (VK) sets through its widgets — share buttons, comments and login — embedded on other sites, used for tracking and to sync settings such as language with vk.com.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 25 sites (1% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Advertising
- Belongs to
- VK
- Set as
- First-party on 12% of sites, third-party on 88%
- Typical lifetime
- 12 months
- Where it's common
- 76% of the sites that set it use a .ru domain.
- Name
- A family of cookies: the part after remix varies by site or account.
Sites that set remix* before consent
The highest-ranked 25 of 25 sites.
- dzen.ru3 tracking companies
- vk.ru2 tracking companies
- ok.ru6 tracking companies
- wattpad.com3 tracking companies
- livejournal.com11 tracking companies
- pikabu.ru6 tracking companies
- litnet.com9 tracking companies
- amocrm.ru6 tracking companies
- beget.com5 tracking companies
- sprinthost.ru5 tracking companies
Show 15 more sites
- russianfood.com6 tracking companies
- mindbox.ru6 tracking companies
- hh.ru5 tracking companies
- vtb.ru4 tracking companies
- vkvideo.ru4 tracking companies
- ihc.ru1 tracking company
- narod.ru5 tracking companies
- hybrid.ai6 tracking companies
- sber.ru6 tracking companies
- cloud4box.ru3 tracking companies
- mk.ru6 tracking companies
- insales.ru9 tracking companies
- uxfeedback.ru3 tracking companies
- liveinternet.ru7 tracking companies
- gazprombank.ru4 tracking companies
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop remix* 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 written by CookieTosser, for a cookie the Open Cookie Database doesn't cover.
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.