Disable friends spectating on your comp matches?

[Bread]

Is there a possible way?

[nevr3000]

Go offline. Really though why care? Afraid they're going to see your wh?

[muckymucks]

Disable broadcasting in Steam settings.

[Shadezzz]

Originally posted by muckymucks:

Disable broadcasting in Steam settings.

that wont stop spectating in-game.

[Nevander]

Anyone ever see that a match has a viewer or two and then check your friends list to see if it's one of your friends watching it? I do that sometimes.

[Dragon]

delete them

[Bread]

Originally posted by Nevander:

Anyone ever see that a match has a viewer or two and then check your friends list to see if it's one of your friends watching it? I do that sometimes.

how do you know if they're watching your game?

[nevr3000]

Originally posted by Jamie Oliver:

Originally posted by Nevander:

Anyone ever see that a match has a viewer or two and then check your friends list to see if it's one of your friends watching it? I do that sometimes.

how do you know if they're watching your game?

Think the only way is to leave the game/ or at the end of the match. The spectators view a delayed playback, so they'll still be watching when you're done playing.
You see viewers on the scoreboard, and on the CSGO friends list you'll see "spectating competitive dust2" on your friend, or something along those lines.

[☮☮]

If you press shift+tab you can see friends on the server. If you play solo q and see that you have one friend on this server, he or she is watching

[Publord Steve]

I tried: tv_broadcast 0, tv_nochat 1

* I could not find any options to disable gotv in the UI.

* There's no viewer indicator.
the only reason I knew about a spectator was because a friend told me (casual and comp). On tounament gotv, however, I assume there's an 'eye' indicator.

* steam broadcast (invite only) is not the same as gotv broadcast.

* To know if you're 'broadcasting' ask someone to see if there's a tv icon on the right hand side (friends list)...

why this is so obscure is beyond me. there should be options besides removing people and becoming an online recluse. you can forget the nazi expression 'if you don't have anything to hide you have nothing to fear' cliche. not helpful.

[Yoshi]

You can disable friends from spectating. You cant disable random spectators.
Anyone in match (friend or fiend) can enable / disable spectating friends.
GoTV Service is always enabled in public mm and automatically sets up if someone wants to spectate. GoTV Broadcast MM List ist somehow random i guess (correct me if im wrong, afaik matches with existing spectators will appear randomly as spectable game).