Location data

Websites use your location to show you the most relevant information, like the local weather, traffic info, city maps, or businesses nearby. Your location is determined by the nearest wireless access points and your device's IP address. Device location data is depersonalized: only geographic coordinates are sent. This information can't be used to identify you.

See also: How Yandex determines my city.

  1. Allow or forbid a site to determine your location
  2. View sites that are allowed to determine your location
  3. Prohibiting location detection
  4. Set your city manually
  5. Location in Incognito mode
  6. Location is not detected correctly

Allow or forbid a site to determine your location

When a site requests information about your location, a notification about this will appear at the top of the page.

Click the button:

  • Allow, to allow the site or its component (such as a map) to learn where you are. The  icon will appear in the SmartBox.
  • Block, to prohibit the site from learning where you are. The  icon will appear in the SmartBox.

Click  or  to change this.

View sites that are allowed to determine your location

  1. Click   → Settings → Websites.
  2. At the bottom of the page, click Advanced site settings.
  3. In the Access to your location section, click the Sites advanced settings link.

The list of websites allowed to track your location is displayed on the Allowed tab. To remove a website from the list, hover over it and click the Remove link that appears. The website will no longer be allowed to detect your location.

Prohibiting location detection

  1. Click   → Settings → Websites.
  2. At the bottom of the page, click Advanced site settings.
  3. In the Access to your location section, enable the Not allowed option.

Set your city manually

Note. Your manual city selection is saved in a cookie file. The regional settings will work on your device until you change them or delete your cookies.
  1. Go to the location settings page.
  2. Turn off the Auto detect option.
  3. Enter a city in the field and click Save.

If you can't save the city, check if the Yandex Browser beta version is allowed to save cookies.

Location in Incognito mode

By default, your location is determined automatically in Incognito mode, even if you entered your city manually earlier. This is because cookies are not saved in Incognito mode and any manual city selection you make is saved as a cookie.

Location is not detected correctly

The browser doesn't detect location correctly
Remove the extension that changes the settings

You might have installed an extension that changes your proxy server settings. Try disabling it.

  1. Click   → Add-ons and turn off all the extensions. Restart Yandex Browser using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Q.
  2. Clear your cache so that the browser doesn't load a copy of the page that was saved earlier.
  3. If this solves your problem, go through your extensions and turn them back on until you find the one that causes the problem. Restart Yandex Browser every time.
  4. Disable this extension. You may want to let the developers know about the problem.
Set up your location manually

Your IP address may belong to a network with multiple regions. Set up your location manually:

  1. Go to the settings page.
  2. Turn off the Automatically identify city option.
  3. Start entering the name of your city in the field.
  4. In the list of suggestions that appears, select your city or town.
  5. Click Save.
Note. Manual location settings are saved in a cookie file. If the manually selected city changes to another one, it means that Yandex Browser deleted cookies. Make sure that cookies are enabled in the Yandex Browser settings.

If the problem persists, report it to support via the form:

  • Send a link to the page where you see the wrong city.
  • Indicate what city is listed in the settings when you click Find me and what your actual location is.
The browser doesn't detect location

It's possible that you prevented all sites from tracking your location earlier.