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Private Steam
by Martin Brinkmann on April 11, 2018 in Games - Last Update: November 11, 2019 - 10 comments
How to change Steam Privacy settings
Valve Software announced a major change to privacy settings on Steam today that improves user privacy for all users of the gaming platform.
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Valve Software announced a major change to privacy settings on Steam today that improves user privacy for all users of the gaming platform.
Steam users may select now who has got access to their profile, game details and inventory but the most important part of the announcement is one that Valve did not mention explicitly; the company switched the visibility of all Steam profiles to "friends only".
While that is without a doubt great for privacy, it does mean that useful services such as Steam Spy will not work anymore as they used the public data to populate top lists by sales, play time and other stats.
Most Steam users may have no need to change privacy settings thanks to the default but some may. It is still possible to change the visibility to public or private, and make other modifications.
It may not be clear right away how to make privacy modifications on Steam as you won't find those options in the preferences.
The following options are provided there:
You can set the visibility to friends only or private. The "My Profile" visibility setting impacts other settings. If you set it to private, all other settings are set to private as well. If you set the profile's visibility to public, the visibility setting of game details and inventory remains set to friends only.
My Profile : "Your community profile includes your profile summary, friends list, badges, Steam Level, showcases, comments, and group membership."
Game Details : "This category includes the list of all games on your Steam account, games you’ve wishlisted, your achievements and your playtime. This setting also controls whether you’re seen as "in-game" and the title of the game you are playing."
Friends List : "This controls who can see your list of friends on your Steam community profile".
Inventory : "Your inventory includes items you've received in games that use Steam Trading. It also includes any Steam Trading Cards you've collected and extra copies or Steam Gifts."
Two options cannot be changed. Basic details such as the profile name and avatar remain public, and the visibility of workshop items and screenshots remains set to per-item.
Valve noted that it is working on a new invisibility mode for profiles which shows the user as offline to others without impacting messaging or other functionality.
Third-parties cannot pull date from Steam profiles anymore thanks to the visibility restrictions. While it is sad that it impacts useful services such as Steam Spy, it is beneficial to users.
The option to set the profile to private is welcome and as is the option to hide individual game playtime. If you want to hide the fact that you wasted thousands of hours playing HuniePop, Deep Space Waifu or Crush Crush, you can do that now with the click of a button.
Now You : Do you use Steam or other gaming platforms?
Just for info – literally no one will trade with you if you set your profile to private because it’s a known tactic of impersonators and scammers.
The words ‘steam’ and ‘privacy’ do not go well together.
Are you aware that ‘steam’ scans your browser cache to see if you’ve visited any websites they object to? They can and will ban you if you’ve been somewhere they don’t like.
They also auto update any games you have purchased through steam without notifying you it will, is, or has happened. So knowing that next patch has a bug that will make your game unplayable doesn’t mean squat, because you can stop them from doing it.
They’ve also paid their fees to Microsoft so that the built in firewall automatically makes rules allowing all of steams files full access to whatever they want. Windows Firewall Control, a small third party app, can cure this and give you full control over what rules are created.
To answer the question, yes I do have steam. I created my account many years ago but only reinstalled it in 2013 when the new Tomb Raider came out. I have some other titles as well but I will download DRM free versions of the games I already own on steam just so I can play them without sending information to steam about every thing I do I my PC.
The eula says “I” can’t reverse engineer the game, it doesn’t say I can’t use a version someone else has done so with. As I legally own the game I feel I have purchased the right to play any version I choose.
>They can and will ban you if you’ve been somewhere they don’t like.
Lmao. Stuff i did: – purchasing games from grey market sites (G2A, Kinguin, etc.) – tax evasion on 3rd party shops (no way i’ll pay 1/4 more just because i’m from EU) – activating stolen/leaked keys that were posted on forums – activating games via VPN (why pay 30€ for Borderlands 2 if i can get it from Brazil for ~5€) – cheated on some hard-to-get achievements
And guess what? My account is almost 10 years old, i have nearly 4000 games and there were never any problems. If any leaked key was revoked, i just got a “xy was removed from your library” popup and that’s it.
>They also auto update any games you have purchased through steam without notifying you it will, is, or has happened. So knowing that next patch has a bug that will make your game unplayable doesn’t mean squat, because you can stop them from doing it.
Blame the devs, not Steam. They just push whatever a dev uploads. It’s also possible to downgrade a game; google “Guide: How to download older versions of a game on Steam” and click the first result.
>As I legally own the game I feel I have purchased the right to play any version I choose.
You don’t own games on Steam, Origin, Uplay, etc., you just purchased the right to play them. I think this was clarified when someone decided to sue Valve because they wanted to sell “used” games from their libraries.
‘They also auto update any games you have purchased through steam without notifying you it will’
try digging the settings, there’s option to disable auto update by default
‘Are you aware that ‘steam’ scans your browser cache to see if you’ve visited any websites they object to? ‘ ‘They’ve also paid their fees to Microsoft so that the built in firewall automatically makes rules allowing all of steams files full access to whatever they want.’
first time I heard of this, any article to backup your statement?
‘As I legally own the game I feel I have purchased the right to play any version I choose’
no, you don’t ‘own’ the game but you ‘have the right’ to play the game. most games nowadays are like that.
Open your windows firewall and find the 5 entries for steam. Change them from allow to block.
Now open steam and it will connect just fine. Go back and look in your firewall rules again and you’ll find new duplicate rules set to allow.
I’ve been visiting such websites day and night, for many years, never got banned. But I don’t buy games on Steam, unless there is no other way, like GOG for example, because I’ve read somewhere that Steam can revoke games you have in your library, games you paid for so that’s why I avoid, unless I really want to play the game and there is no other way.
> Are you aware that ‘steam’ scans your browser cache to see if you’ve visited any websites they object to? They can and will ban you if you’ve been somewhere they don’t like.
Valve only scanned hashes of sites visited as an anti-cheat method. It checked for connections to ‘cheat logged in pages’.
Valve no longer does this as cheat devs caught on to it.
>They also auto update any games you have purchased through steam without notifying you it will
Every game can be set to auto update or NOT. It’s called convenience. Maybe you are too young to remember what a pain it was getting game patches before steam.
You should spread facts, not biased mis-information.
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I have edited the flair of this PSA, as this is no longer the case.
As others have commented, it may have been a bug at the time that the original poster posted this.
This has been rectified, and you can see VAC bans on private profiles.
I will pin this for more visibility.
probably a bug, i’d be surprised if it was permanent. most likely an oversight when redesigning the whole profile thing
They shouldn't be able to hide it by making their profile private, most cheaters who already got caught make their profiles private anyway so giving them this option only make it harder to find out if they are repeat offenders.
It also hurt normal players if they have a private profile for legitimate reasons you won't know for sure.
I dont think they intended to, private profiles are bugged/broken in general.
is that why people make their profile private? I made mine private in an attempt to just not be a target for hackers and scammers who might want my account or something. I don't people to see "oh this guy has this stuff, lemme get him"
That shouldnt be the case. If you cheated and got banned, you deserve that mark on your profile, period. I have no sympathy for cheaters and they can get fucked
That's a really bad change, and I hope that it's just an accidental bug due to the new UI changes that was overlooked.
If someone is suspicious enough to be a cheater, then checking their profile is the first step most people will do to see whether or not their suspicions may be true or not, even if it's not 100% full proof. This just further limits ones ability to check whether one is hacking or not, especially in games where there isn't a replay/demo system.
No idea why you got downvoted, guess theres a bunch of cheater sympathizers in this sub.
I hope this is an accidental bug, too. I don't play multiplayer games on Steam, but if I did, I'd want to be able to check that my fellow players weren't known cheaters, scammers, or trolls.
It must be a bug or something. I hope valve makes sure to not give this type of advantage to cheaters as they need to be exposed. They ruin our favourite games and should be treated like dirt only.
Darn now I can't see who I should be wary of.
My assumption is that showing a profile as a cheater even after making the profile private could be problematic with EU GDPR regulations. Even if the player is a cheater, Valve cannot show this data after the player requests their data be private.
the virgin privating your profile vs the chad waiting 7 years currently at 1900 days!
I have a vac ban from my brother hacking tf2 luckily it’s not csgo I’m banned from
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