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Mail.ru

Who runs Mail.ru, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web portal alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Rambler

Measured from Mail.ru’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Mail.ru

Mail.ru mail.ru

Wikidata: Russian web portal

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Mail.ru tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 14 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Mail.ru’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Mail.ru

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Mail.ru, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Mail.ru match.

We can’t read mail.ru’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    Yandex yandex.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Yandex — fast Internet search

    Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.

    Compare Yandex with Mail.ru →
  2. 02
    AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

    News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

    Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

    Compare AOL with Mail.ru →
  3. 03
    MSN msn.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    MSN

    collection of Internet sites by Microsoft

    Compare MSN with Mail.ru →
  4. 04
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

    Compare Lycos with Mail.ru →
  5. 05
    GMX gmx.com English 1 tracker

    Free Email Accounts @GMX.com: Secure & easy to use

    Personal & professional email ➤ 100% free ➤ spam filter ➤ Convenient mail collector ➤ Mobile app ➤ Register with GMX today.

    Compare GMX with Mail.ru →
  6. 06
    gazeta.ru English No trackers

    Document

    Russian state-controlled website

    Compare gazeta.ru with Mail.ru →
  7. 07
    The Kyiv Independent kyivindependent.com English No trackers

    The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe

    News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine

    Compare The Kyiv Independent with Mail.ru →
  8. 08
    bluewin.ch Top 10K English 2 trackers

    News & Email at blue News | Switzerland, Sports, People, International

    News from Switzerland and around the world covering sports, politics, entertainment, business & digital — Live streams – Webmail login Bluewin email

    Compare bluewin.ch with Mail.ru →
  9. 09
    VK vk.ru Top 1K English 1 tracker

    VK.com | VK

    social networking service from Russia

    Compare VK with Mail.ru →
  10. 10
    British Broadcasting Corporation bbc.com Top 1K English No trackers

    BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio

    Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more

    Compare British Broadcasting Corporation with Mail.ru →
  11. 11
    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

    Compare Digg with Mail.ru →
  12. 12
    Cheezburger cheezburger.com English 1 tracker

    Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger

    You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.

    Compare Cheezburger with Mail.ru →
  13. 13
    TIME time.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates

    Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.

    Compare TIME with Mail.ru →
  14. 14
    Beget beget.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Beget — Hosting and Cloud Services | IT Infrastructure Rental

    Beget is a Russian cloud provider ☁️Cloud services rental for businesses and IT projects: dedicated servers, VPS/VDS, S3 storage, DBaaS, hosting, and domain registration.⚡️ High speed ⚡️ Guaranteed 99.98% Uptime ⚡️ 24/7 Support

    Compare Beget with Mail.ru →
  15. 15
    VK vk.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    VK.com | VK

    Compare VK with Mail.ru →
  16. 16
    superjob.ru English No trackers

    Captcha

    Compare superjob.ru with Mail.ru →
  17. 17
    cian.ru Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Are you not a robot?

    Finds everything

    Compare cian.ru with Mail.ru →
  18. 18
    FC2 fc2.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -

    FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.

    Compare FC2 with Mail.ru →
  19. 19
    Pruffme pruffme.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Pruffme - вебинары, видеоконференции, онлайн-доски

    Создавайте онлайн-доски, проводите вебинары и видеоконференции с применением интерактивных инструментов

    Compare Pruffme with Mail.ru →
  20. 20
    Vivaldi vivaldi.com English 1 tracker

    Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

    It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

    Compare Vivaldi with Mail.ru →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Mail.ru’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Mail.ru uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Mail.ru adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
Neighbours
k = 57
Sites searched
9,213
Vector
384-d
Query
26 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Mail.ru’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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