What does vk.ru track?
Before any consent, vk.ru loaded 2 tracking companies and set 28 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 vk.ru once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 28
- Third-party hosts
- 8
- Cookies in total
- 29
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Mail.ru (VK)9 requestsAnalytics
top-fwz1.mail.ru, privacy-cs.mail.ru
- Mediascope (TNS Counter)6 requestsAnalytics
www.tns-counter.ru, tns-counter.ru
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- vk-portal.net5 requestsUnclassified
stats.vk-portal.net, akashi.vk-portal.net
- apptracer.ru3 requestsUnclassified
sdk-api.apptracer.ru
- mradx.net2 requestsUnclassified
r0.mradx.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was remixlang, from VK, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| remixcav | Advertising | api.vk.ru | 1 day |
| remixcolor_scheme_mode | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixdark_color_scheme | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixdt | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixgp | Advertising | vk.ru | 7 days |
| remixlang | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixlgck | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixlns | Advertising | vk.ru | Under a day |
| remixscreen_depth | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixscreen_dpr | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixscreen_height | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixscreen_orient | Advertising | vk.ru | 7 days |
| remixscreen_width | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixscreen_winzoom | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixsf | Advertising | vk.ru | 15 days |
| remixstid | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixstid | Advertising | vk-portal.net (third party) | 12 months |
| remixstlid | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixstlid | Advertising | vk-portal.net (third party) | 12 months |
| remixua | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixuacck | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| remixuas | Advertising | vk.ru | 12 months |
| guid | Analytics | tns-counter.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| PVID | Analytics | top-fwz1.mail.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| tmr_detect | Analytics | vk.ru | 1 day |
| tmr_lvid | Analytics | vk.ru | 11 months |
| tmr_lvidTS | Analytics | vk.ru | 11 months |
| VID | Analytics | mail.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| domain_sid | Unclassified | vk.ru | 7 days |
The page also wrote 17 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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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- Consent management platforms explained
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