Yandex Reviews 

The website is default for Russian language - trying to get it to translate to English has proved a nightmare.

You would think it would be "user friendly " but in my experience, it is not - despite unsuccessful assistance from their "help desk "
Sean Lucas New Zealand

Had a very bad experience with Yandex. Accidentally, gave a higher-value banknote and didn’t receive the appropriate change. Tried to contact the driver but without any success. Contacted support center and didn’t receive anticipated help.

Best browser for porn, by far! The image search is great at finding like content, as is the video section. One complaint is that it should autoplay gifs like Bing, and then it would be the only browser for flogging the dolphin.

23 May 2022
UPDATE!
(IS YANDEX GETTING IT WRONG AGAIN… OR IS THERE A DIFFERENT REASON FOR INCONVENIENCING THEIR CUSTOMERS???)
Well, here I am more than three weeks after the sudden and unexpected ‘freezing’ of my two Yandex email accounts.
To date, there has been no restoration to access and no effort or attempt made by Yandex to make contact or resolve this outrageous state-of-affairs.
This has given me time to do a little consultation and research including a few contacts with other innocents who have been treated similarly.
What I’ve learned seems to indicate, what can only be described as a sly, dishonest and subversive attempt to wring personal information from their customers. Telephone numbers, addresses, identity information and according to some, even personal banking detail!
Now if this is true, it reveals a disgraceful attempt to destroy privacy and confidentiality of certain account owners and to hand over and trust your sensitive information to an anonymous group of people in a foreign country known as a ‘hackers haven’.
This would leave one exposed to information interception, abuse of the data, selling that information to other dodgey parties for profit as well as leaving one open to identity theft, ID cloning and other financial scams!
For Yandex to attempt to blackmail their clients in return for a promised return to service-as-normal is an atrocious conditional policy and I, for one, will not accept it!
More to the point, I shall do all I can to make others aware of how I’ve been treated and how and what potential clients might be opening themselves to by doing business with Yandex.
In closing, Russia as a country, is currently suffering from a seriously poor public relations profile and one would think that their corporates would like to avoid further criticism by embarking on poor international business practices. Even worse, they risk antagonizing neutrals and those who might have favourable opinions of the country and its business integrity and reputation.
So there it is.
It would have been helpful if Yandex had had the courage ‘front up’ and provide explanations and answers to these rumours and inferences, but as I have experienced, they hide behind a suspiciously deafening silence!
Rant over, I will accept that I have lost years of communications data, but I shall not buckle under Yandex’s dictatorial demands of the gun being held to my head. In return, I shall spread the news of their arrogant, unfriendly un-businesslike practices far and wide.
Be wary out there!

I've been using Yandex happily for a couple of years. All of a sudden when I went to log in they demanded a security code and flashed up an old phone number of mine. I no longer have that phone. I tried other methods of proving my identity but these mostly consist of telling them the exact addresses of my last few emails. Without accessing my account I haven't got a clue about the exact addresses and so couldn't provide those. Nor did I have any other email account 'linked' to the Yandex account. The upshot was I had to change my contact email for half a dozen companies and have lost receipts and other important info that were stored in my mail folders. I emailed Yandex with as much info as I had (not much) and never heard back from them. Exact same happened with a Gmail account I once had. Feel like going out and buying writing paper and envelopes. All this security stuff is getting out of hand.

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 and have no way of retrieving them. I'd advise anyone with an account to back up their data and get out fast otherwise you'll end in the same predicament.
I might not have lost my soul but they most certainly have. I'm off now to find a trustworthy open source mail client and will leave the major players to their inevitable demise.

A different free search engine to google, bing and duckduckgo. Does the job, not on par with googles searches just yet. But works well enough. Maps are fine and basic, do not know how often they update.

Very good service..
unlike Google , gives reliable true info..
secure

Лучшая поисковая система в России, я предпочитаю Яндекс тому же Google выводит более актуальные сайты и информацию для пользователей, исходя из их запросов.

Было хорошо! Однако, Путин испортил нам настроение, вторгшись в Украину. Восстаньте против своего диктатора, прекратите убивать невинных людей! Ваше правительство лжет вам. Восстаньте!

Путин убивает ульранцев! Не обманывайтесь

Отличное место! Стоит отметить, что «Демилитаризация Украины» — это ложь, которую вам скармливает Путин. Ежедневно на улицах Киева, Харькова и Донецка бессознательные российские солдаты убивают мирных жителей, в том числе детей... Бомбиты школы, больницы, детские сады и ясли. Украина не агрессивна, но обороняется от оккупантов, которыми, к сожалению, являются российские военные.

Мне очень жаль, что вам приходится переживать такой сложный период, который сейчас происходит в вашей стране. Все санкции, введенные в отношении российских учреждений и компаний европейскими странами, являются лишь нашим ответом на преступления, совершенные Путиным и Лукашенко на украинской земле. Только так мы можем решить эту ситуацию без кровопролития, без войны.

Граждане России, проснитесь! Свергните убийство Путина и увидите! Мы не угроза для вас. Мы хотим мира, мы хотим соглашения, но мы должны вместе противостоять безумию вашего «лидера».

Я приветствую тебя!

Было хорошо! Российские солдаты убивают невинных детей и стариков в Украине, расстреливают автобусы, детские сады и больницы! Настоящие новости подвергаются цензуре в вашей стране! Остановить Путина!

False information from Russian owned companies regarding the Ukrainian invasion

Лучший российский IT - сервис всех направлений? почта, деньги, такси, фильмы, музыка и т.д. Полная экосистема за копеечную подписку

Яндекс стал комбаином в котором есть всё. Сейчас в новогодние праздники часть этого комбаина ушла в кювет. Больше 2х часов ждал заказ из яндекс еды. Поддержка не реагировала.

I installed Yandex browser in my mobile phone with a view to ultimately replace Google. However I had to uninstall it immediately afterwards due to-
a) I do not know about the general attitude of Russians, but to me Yandex is of a percentage pornographic nature and as such it can never become a mass-usage application suitable for families in Indian society.
b) It does not prominently indicate any options to weed out all percentage pornography in contents and feature displays so that Indians like me can install it in our mobile phones and computers at home, as an alternative to Google and other similar applications.
c) India will be potentially the largest user of Yandex, just as it is of Google and WhatsApp. Is Yandex interested? What about President Putin's often stressed expressions on public decency and family values?
from: JS Karkada
Bangalore, India

Merry XMas to whom it may concern.
Some time ago already Yandex used to harass me with automatically generated nag screens suggesting I was generating "spam".
@yandex: I do consider THAT behavior worse than spam. At least Nigerian spammers used to be entertaining.
That started upon sending my second message that year.
"they" failed to reply on my questions regarding the above mentioned. That's pretty rude to say the least.
Nag screens stopped, I suppose as a result from all the complaints on, amongst others, this site.
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But today, while trying to sign in, I got the message my account had been hacked.
Checked on "haveibeenpwned' website. Nope.
Did provide "them" with recovery info, upon which they stated "too many tries" or such. RIP yandex.
So I decided to use my trusted Yahoo account and blocked these clowns in my hosts file, and indicated them as "UNTRUSTED' in NoScript
Avoid that russian-dutch entity, even if it's the last one in existence.

I purchased a NYC baseball cap for $17.74 on Nov 18th from a company called Hatlander and haven't heard a word since, emailed this person several times to no avail.