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Considering it will only change the displayed profile for you and no one else Valve isn't really going to care.
that's pretty cool, can you link the youtube vid that showed how to do it?
interesting, thx for sharing
I thought you were using the inspect tool to get graphics or something, inspecting the HTML. It wasn't clear you were using the the Javascript console in the developer tools until you linked the video. Although if you're just someone following a guide, there's no way you'd use all the precise terminology that would make your question clear to a developer.
And even then my initial response would have been the same as Damp's. But again, seeing the video I understand why it works.
I mean I don't think you'll get in trouble for it. If Valve has a problem with it they can be more strict about validating their inputs and preventing users from doing clever things like that. That's just part of the struggle of being a developer though. You've gotta make a program and think of a million and one ways the user is going to do stuff you don't want them to do. So I wouldn't be surprised if this gets locked down at some point as even if the web developers thinks it's cute and clever, letting users do things you haven't explicitly allowed them to do is borderline at best. If they wanted users fiddling with those values they'd have them in the UI to change.
It's a prime example about how you can never trust users though. If you give them the opportunity to do something, they will do it. And it's not even the users fault, it's your fault as the developer for not thinking of every possible scenario. You laugh, you cry, you update the code...
So I wouldn't be surprised if it gets broken and there's no work around. But since there's a million things to try, and people are clever, who knows.
A few years later they redesign profiles from the ground up and all new things to exploit are introduced and the cycle begins again.