What is the yp cookie?
A combined cookie Yandex uses to store several of the visitor's technical preferences, such as region and interface settings, bundled together with their own expiry dates.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 12 sites (0% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- Yandex
- Set as
- First-party on 42% of sites, third-party on 58%
- Typical lifetime
- 13 months
- Where it's common
- 58% of the sites that set it use a .ru domain.
Sites that set yp before consent
The highest-ranked 12 of 12 sites.
- mts.ru3 tracking companies
- yandex.com0 tracking companies
- ya.ru1 tracking company
- livejournal.com11 tracking companies
- tbank.ru4 tracking companies
- imgsrc.ru1 tracking company
- hh.ru5 tracking companies
- yandex.com.tr0 tracking companies
- yandex.kz0 tracking companies
- voskhod.ru1 tracking company
Show 2 more sites
- yandex.by0 tracking companies
- insales.ru9 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Yandex.
- gdpr_popup6 sites
- yandex_gid5 sites
- yandex_login3 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop yp 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.