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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I start using Yandex 5 days ago and every time I am opening some website, I see your pop-up question: "Yandex uses essential, analytical, marketing and other cookies. These files are necessary to ensu... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Yandex has been my main email client for many years and in general problem free but suddenly I find I am locked of my account unless I hand over my soul! I have lost access to important contacts... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been using Yandex for years since I had basic privacy concerns. As I recall, the company is Dutch but the service is ran from Russian soil. The same Russia that hasn't turned over Edward Snow... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I joined this site and paid $97.00. After reading about the different online businesses that were available I decided on medical coding since I have a background in nursing. I called the registration... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Yandex.com sends emails into my INBOX…

Yandex.com sends emails into my INBOX on Gmail. They get past my filters because their emails are sent under fake Gmail and Hotmail address. So the filters think that they are legitimate emails.

They ALSO remove the "unsubscribe" tab on the emails of their advertisers and put their own. Only problem is that they have been GOING to get my email out of their system for four weeks.

I shall NEVER buy anything from the companies who send their spam with Yandex.com into MY inbox.

4 October 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Trying Yandex instead of Google

I tried Yandex instead of Google and well it was doing great at the beginning but now it just pops "human checks" all the time because somehow they figured out i am a robot and it kinda sucks.

1 August 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Annoying message Yandex pushes every time you open new website

I start using Yandex 5 days ago and every time I am opening some website, I see your pop-up question: "Yandex uses essential, analytical, marketing and other cookies. These files are necessary to ensure smooth operation of all Yandex sites and services, they help us remember you and your personal settings. For details, please read our Cookie Policy." It is VERY ANNOYING, beside it takes some space on screen. Why you are PUSHING this thing so brazenly ?I am thinking of uninstall Yandex because of this stupidity. What a shame for such browser.

19 June 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I have been using Yandex for years…

I have been using Yandex for years since I had basic privacy concerns. As I recall, the company is Dutch but the service is ran from Russian soil. The same Russia that hasn't turned over Edward Snowden yet for revealing to the world the huge mass spying op by so many of the world's so-called "free" nations. Granted Russia can be spying but never as of yet had issues with that happening. Never had an issue with it period. The usability is excellent. The fact the servers are in Russia means to get access by my home nation is all but impossible. I got nothing to hide, but considering I love freedom, they'd use that against me. Baffled by so many negative reviews......

9 June 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It is hard to find a happy person…

It is hard to find a happy person (among the approx 90 negative comments, listed on trustpilot.com reviews website) with a decent comment regarding the Russian Yandex.com e-mail services provider, while Lifewire.com have posted an article RE: the top 10 e-mail providers of 2021 on their website that includes Yandex as one of the best!!!. The sad thing is that when this matter was brought to their (Lifewire.com ) attention, not only they ignored us but also their moderators censored our objective feedback, which provided also a link to trustpilot.com….. ( with many comments related to Yandex.com ) for Lifewire folks to verify the finding and correct their opinions of Yandex.com or at least allow people to post comments within their article and express their feedback – unfortunately we were ignored and censored. Apparently here pops up the simple two aspects question: 1. Are the Lifewire staff that incompetent, hence can’t execute a simple search on the topic prior to writing this article Or 2. The scammers at Yandex.com paid them to write such reviews. We aren’t talking here any knowledge in algorithms required for Googling or DuckDuckGoing what’s out there online in relation to Yndex…, so we would go with option number 2. Finally, for any entity that values Free Flow of info, Fairness, Objectivity in reviews etc, you may take your business with Lifewire (if any) elsewhere; they apply censorship and support such companies, we strike back with our own reviews…

21 April 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Misleading & Waste of time

Lets you open the email account without phone number, then only after you start using it they lock you out until you provide valid phone number. Not everyone has a phone or phone number (e.g. data only plan) and mainly not everyone likes to share their phone number, enough phone spam as it is. If they really need phone number, ask during signup and do not take account hostage.

7 April 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What an absolute joke

What an absolute joke! An email service where you can't send or receive emails. If you intend to scam people at least make an effort to be professional about it.
Avoid these clowns like the plague!!!!

8 March 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Deleted right after the creation because they gave me a 24h ban for trying to send my password to my other account.

What a crappy server. I created an account and you need to give a security question and answer if you dont want to give them your phone number.

I have bad experiences with this system and i already lost an email account because of that.

I don't want to have the same experience so I created an email which shares the answer to my question (they dont ask for a recovery email) and send it to my other mail. I can't. They tell me it looks like spam. But its not. it's just a short email. They restrained me from sending emails for the next 24 hours....

So i deleted my account.

btw, their security seps are annoying. They focus on not having spam accounts but it damages the user experience and i will probably not be recommending this provider anywhere.

Player 9 of The Game

(to yandex, I am player 9 of many to come. You'll probably won't make it to our recommendation page for our players who need an email address in order to play. Just giving a head's up. Things are changing.)

16 February 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The most unsafe and insecure server. Not recommended.

The most unsafe and insecure server. Recently I created Yandex account to work for Toloka Yandex online tasks and regardless having quite a good password it was hacked within the several hours. Toloka Yandex team via Facebook confirmed hacking of my account. So I immediately requested its blocking. Good I did not enter my PayPal or Credit Card information. To be safe I invited AVG antivirus technician to check my computer for infection-I have a paid account. Luckily PC was clean. AVG technician said I might click some link and got hacked. I was really clicking links to do some task on Toloka Yandex-they were newspaper links. Later, after investigation Toloka Yandex said that account was not hacked but they blocked my account for safety purposes. Not changing my mind about insecurity of Yandex. The best thing what has ever happened there is blocking of my account. Yandex server -NOT recommended.

24 January 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Cannot uninstall Yandex browser using…

Cannot uninstall Yandex browser using normal uninstall prodedure.Ended up just deleting the whole folder and running a registry scan and deleting all left over "junk" . It seems to be a scam. Cannot believe it is being recommended by sites like CNET and Digital Trends.

9 January 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Yandex give the WORST capcha EVER!

Yandex give the WORST capcha EVER!

I understand you avoiding Bot. But JAPANESE? KOREAN? and even if I type in the right thing, IT STILL WRONG??? WTH? Update your capcha like Google or Outlook, for chris sake!

23 December 2020
Unprompted review

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