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.
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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 — The site or its component (such as a map) will know 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
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Click
→ Settings → Websites. -
At the bottom of the page, click Advanced site settings.
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In the Access to your location section, click Site settings.
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 Delete. The website will no longer be allowed to detect your location.
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Prohibiting location detection
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Click
→ Settings → Websites. -
At the bottom of the page, click Advanced site settings.
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In the Access to your location section, select Not allowed.
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Click
→ Settings → System requirements. -
At the bottom of the page, click Personal data settings.
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Deselect Allow Yandex services to detect location.
Note
To apply these changes, clear your cache.
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.
- Go to the location settings page.
- Turn off the Automatically identify city option.
- Enter a city in the field and click Save.
If you can't save the city, check if Yandex Browser 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 determine location correctly
Remove the extension that changes the settings
You might have installed an extension that changes your proxy server settings. Try disabling it:
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Restart the Browser: close it with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Q (on Windows and Linux) or ⌘+ Q (in macOS), then open it again.
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Clear the cache so that a previously saved copy of the page is not loaded into the Browser.
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If the problem has disappeared, search through the extension that causes it. Restart the Browser every time.
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Disable this extension. You can also write to its developers about the problem.
Set up your location manually
Your IP address may belong to a network with multiple regions. Set up your location manually:
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Go to the settings page.
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Turn off the Automatically identify city option.
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Start entering the name of your city in the field.
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In the list of suggestions that appears, select your city or town.
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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 determine location
It's possible that you prevented all sites from tracking your location earlier.
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