does any of you guys knows how to prevent steam from reading my activity on internet?

[impheris2007]

i know some of you like it but for my its á bit annoying, and i did not find a clear way to configurate it in the settings.

[mo pai 青龍]

Steam does record some things, but I do not believe they have browser history.

They do read the DNS cache (a list of web addresses your computer has looked up) as part of anti-cheat, but all that does is look for certain cheat program activity in it. Their pattern matching won't match anything else.

If you are in the EU you can request that Valve sends you a list of all the data they have on you. I can't remember where the screen for that is.

[Dranak]

are you try prevent steam to know this thats impossible, but maybe its other user you actual dont want to know, i think private profile is one way , but then other can see you have a private profile.

so family share to another account might be the right way,
then you access other account for content, and none knows you play from diffrent account.
unless they have access to it. ( offline play also possible but then its only single player game, not possible to many games today all are online client , and that brake what you try to do. )

but dont think that steam wont know other account access other account, its more a other user wont know solution.

or make a real other account and buy games there. is also 100% unknown user ( diffrent user )

[impheris2007]

Originally posted by Moppy:

Steam does record some things, but I do not believe they have browser history.

They do read the DNS cache (a list of web addresses your computer has looked up) as part of anti-cheat, but all that does is look for certain cheat program activity in it. Their pattern matching won't match anything else.

If you are in the EU you can request that Valve sends you a list of all the data they have on you. I can't remember where the screen for that is.

Hi, thanks for your awnser, but no, I'm talking about steam always reading my activity on the internet, for example: if i am watching a video on youtube of any game and then open up steam, the "steam news" windows that open with steam will recommends me to buy that game. It happens me all the time -.- and i do not know how to turn that off.

[mo pai 青龍]

Originally posted by impheris2007:

Hi, thanks for your awnser, but no, I'm talking about steam always reading my activity on the internet, for example: if i am watching a video on youtube of any game and then open up steam, the "steam news" windows that open with steam will recommends me to buy that game. It happens me all the time -.- and i do not know how to turn that off.

If you pick an uncommon game completely at random does it do it? Sometimes a game is trending so they just push it to news feeds automatically.

Second that is usually implemented via tracking cookies in the web browser, so any solution will start there with securing the browser.