What does max.ru track?
Before any consent, max.ru loaded 2 tracking companies and set 23 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more. That's right in line with other .ru sites we scanned: the typical one among 99 sites also loaded 2 tracking companies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading max.ru once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 23
- Third-party hosts
- 4
- Cookies in total
- 25
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Yandex Metrica11 requestsAnalytics
mc.yandex.com, mc.yandex.ru
- Mail.ru (VK)7 requestsAnalytics
top-fwz1.mail.ru, privacy-cs.mail.ru
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was i, from OpenX, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| i | Advertising | yandex.com (third party) | 13 months |
| i | Advertising | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| _ym_d | Analytics | max.ru | 12 months |
| _ym_isad | Analytics | max.ru | 1 day |
| _ym_uid | Analytics | max.ru | 12 months |
| bh | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| bh | Analytics | yandex.com (third party) | 13 months |
| PVID | Analytics | top-fwz1.mail.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| sync_cookie_csrf | Analytics | mc.yandex.com (third party) | Under a day |
| sync_cookie_csrf | Analytics | mc.yandex.ru (third party) | Under a day |
| sync_cookie_csrf_secondary | Analytics | mc.yandex.com (third party) | Under a day |
| sync_cookie_csrf_secondary | Analytics | mc.yandex.ru (third party) | Under a day |
| sync_cookie_ok_secondary | Analytics | mc.yandex.com (third party) | 1 day |
| tmr_detect | Analytics | max.ru | 1 day |
| tmr_lvid | Analytics | max.ru | 11 months |
| tmr_lvidTS | Analytics | max.ru | 11 months |
| VID | Analytics | mail.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| yabs-sid | Analytics | mc.yandex.com (third party) | Session |
| yandexuid | Analytics | yandex.com (third party) | 13 months |
| yandexuid | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| ymex | Analytics | yandex.com (third party) | 12 months |
| yuidss | Analytics | yandex.com (third party) | 12 months |
| yuidss | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| domain_sid | Unclassified | max.ru | 7 days |
| receive-cookie-deprecation | Functional | yandex.com (third party) | 12 months |
The page also wrote 10 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
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- Consent management platforms explained
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