What does ya.ru track?
Before any consent, ya.ru loaded 1 tracking company and set 23 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more. Among the 99 other .ru sites we scanned, the typical one loaded 2 tracking companies — ya.ru loaded fewer.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading ya.ru once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 23
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 36
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 2 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Yandex Metrica8 requestsAnalytics
mc.yandex.ru, sso.passport.yandex.ru, yabs.yandex.ru, yandex.ru
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Yandex13 requestsContent delivery
yastatic.net, static-mon.yandex.net, avatars.mds.yandex.net
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.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| i | Advertising | ya.ru | 13 months |
| pi | Advertising | ya.ru | 13 months |
| pi | Advertising | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| _yasc | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| _yasc | Analytics | ya.ru | 13 months |
| bh | Analytics | ya.ru | 13 months |
| bh | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| is_gdpr | Analytics | ya.ru | 13 months |
| is_gdpr | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| is_gdpr_b | Analytics | ya.ru | 13 months |
| is_gdpr_b | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| mda2_beacon | Analytics | passport.yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| mda2_domains | Analytics | passport.yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| my | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| yabs-sid | Analytics | mc.yandex.ru (third party) | Session |
| yandexuid | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| yandexuid | Analytics | ya.ru | 13 months |
| yashr | Analytics | ya.ru | 12 months |
| yashr | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| ymex | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| ys | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | Session |
| yuidss | Analytics | yandex.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| mda2_beacon | Unclassified | ya.ru | 13 months |
| my | Unclassified | ya.ru | 13 months |
| sessar | Unclassified | ya.ru | Under a day |
| Session_id | Unclassified | ya.ru | Under a day |
| sso_status | Unclassified | ya.ru | Under a day |
| yandex_csyr | Unclassified | ya.ru | 12 months |
| ys | Unclassified | ya.ru | Session |
| receive-cookie-deprecation | Functional | yandex.ru (third party) | 12 months |
| yandex_gid | Functional | ya.ru | 30 days |
| yandex_login | Functional | ya.ru | 12 months |
| yp | Functional | ya.ru | 13 months |
| yp | Functional | yandex.ru (third party) | 13 months |
| gdpr_popup | Necessary | ya.ru | Session |
The page also wrote 7 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
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.