Cloud keeps turning itself on.

[Wagon Wheel]

enable steam cloud keeps enabling itself/turning itself on. I want it off. I want it to stay off.

This has been a problem for some time now. It just happened now and I had to turn it off again.

Are they going to fix this?

[primeinsurrection]

This happens to me all the time too. I eventually gave up.

[Wagon Wheel]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

This happens to me all the time too. I eventually gave up.

I'm not giving up. I want them to address this ongoing issue.

[Wagon Wheel]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

stable or beta client? I got that often in the beta client with the frequent updates, switched to stable and now it stays off ... but I check it after any update to make sure it wasn't toggled on again in the update.

Stable

[Wagon Wheel]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

hmmm ... Could be some config file in steam (there's a lot of them) got messed up on your system and it keeps resetting to defaults. Also, do you have steam installed in the default Program Files directory (a windows 'protected' folder)? Windows protected folders can mess with apps in weird ways (and with windows 11 it's getting weirder) ... the following method can be used to move your steam install and games to a location like C:\Games\Steam or also to just do a clean reinstall of steam without losing your games.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4BD4-4528-6B2E-8327#exist

This keeps happening over many operating systems over many separate installations of Steam.

This is not over one computer but many computers.

[ペンギン]

Block it via hosts file. The "Steam settings" Valve offers us are placebos anyway

Mentioned it in a german thread as well, but you can use the entries.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/24/4625854789815702525/?tscn=1732193058

or in my blog article Blocking Steamcloud Uploads
https://gameindustry.eu/blog/steamcloud-uploads-blockieren/

If you have any questions, you can also add me

[ペンギン]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

Nice. Don't suppose you've got anything for blocking the EA Desktop App's always on cloud too?

I have but you'd need to go through my blocklists or use the search on the site, both for the EA_app itself and for the released games.

It’s a bit trickier, though, because once the core function is disabled, the client might not work anymore and the games themselves might not work either. Similar to Ubisoft or Epic this is a plague that is difficult to deal with when it comes to verifying, analyzing and possibly blocking addresses and traffic, especially if you still want to use the services.

That's unusually better/easier with Steam because cloud services run separately, including data uploads, player data and user-generated content.

[Sandvich]

Originally posted by Rabbit Ears:

enable steam cloud keeps enabling itself/turning itself on. I want it off. I want it to stay off.

This has been a problem for some time now. It just happened now and I had to turn it off again.

Are they going to fix this?

Why do you want it off?

[Snarbel]

This what i posted just now on SUPPORT:

I have a complaint. I keep getting notifications concerning steam cloud. This service does not interest me at all. In fact having to regularly click away cloud-sync issues before I launch MY OWNED games feels invasive and takes away my privacy, voice and choice. I globally disable the damned "service" again and again, but it keeps pooping up. I'm not interested in any technical feedback. There are no issues on my end. Steam needs to provide a singular and easy way to opt out of this cloud "service".

[zbik]

i’ve seen this issue date back to 2019 how is this still not fixed