How to get Steam to remember your birthday

[Ez Duzit]

Every time I look at a game page that requires your b'day, I have to manually enter it. It used to remember it so I could just click next (or enter) and go to the game page. Not a big deal but it is kind of a pita

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

If you are browsing Steam on Chrome, get Enhanced Steam extension. It makes Steam a lot more convenient to use on a browser. Such as bypassing age gate automatically and quickselling items at the lowest selling price from inventory.

Unfortunately on Steam client it doesn't remember it.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Doggo: Goodest of boys:

Impossible
Saw a mod somewhere mentioning that it has to do with the laws of some countries but cant verify if its true

it has to do with laws in US of A. Local state laws, not neccessarily federal laws.

[Manio]

Yea, i remember that Steam used to bypass 'insert birth day here to continue' screens automatically since it remembered my birthday. But lately has changed yet again and now we have to manually input it. Is this due to some U.S law change?

[Iroh]

Originally posted by Manio:

Yea, i remember that Steam used to bypass 'insert birth day here to continue' screens automatically since it remembered my birthday. But lately has changed yet again and now we have to manually input it. Is this due to some U.S law change?

Whatever the reason, it's really stupid. I just had to enter it in to look at the store page for XCOM....a game I ALREADY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ OWN LOL. It did indeed used to save the date so you didn't have to enter it every time, so I'm not sure what the guy who said it's impossible was talking about. Unless he meant it's NOW impossible. Because it definitely worked before.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Turkish:

Whatever the reason, it's really stupid. I just had to enter it in to look at the store page for XCOM....a game I ALREADY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ OWN LOL. It did indeed used to save the date so you didn't have to enter it every time, so I'm not sure what the guy who said it's impossible was talking about. Unless he meant it's NOW impossible. Because it definitely worked before.

Changed on the 6th to a session cookie.

[Big-IN]

At least steam should save the day and month of the birthday in the client and leave the year to be lelected manually.

[Ez Duzit]

Since they foolishly took this feature away for US customers it's kind of annoying to just check out your queue. Should at least be an opt in option. I don't bother with the day and month anymore, I just scroll the year all the way back to to 1900. Can't be bothered entering my b'day each time.

[Big-IN]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Since they foolishly took this feature away for US customers it's kind of annoying to just check out your queue. Should at least be an opt in option. I don't bother with the day and month anymore, I just scroll the year all the way back to to 1900. Can't be bothered entering my b'day each time.

Actually it is possible to enter the date by selecting the corresponding box (day, month, ...) and enter the data by the keyboard.

[shadowshiv]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Since they foolishly took this feature away for US customers it's kind of annoying to just check out your queue. Should at least be an opt in option. I don't bother with the day and month anymore, I just scroll the year all the way back to to 1900. Can't be bothered entering my b'day each time.

Nope. They seem to have taken it away for everyone. I live in Canada (which means that law shouldn't have anything to do with me) and I still have to go through this annoyance. And to top it off, it continually freezes while I am attempting to look at the store page for a game I already own.

Just another stroke of idiocy from Valve.

[Ez Duzit]

Originally posted by {G-A-R} Big-IN:

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Since they foolishly took this feature away for US customers it's kind of annoying to just check out your queue. Should at least be an opt in option. I don't bother with the day and month anymore, I just scroll the year all the way back to to 1900. Can't be bothered entering my b'day each time.

Actually it is possible to enter the date by selecting the corresponding box (day, month, ...) and enter the data by the keyboard.

Why bother???

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Yuiko:

Originally posted by Doggo: Goodest of boys:

Impossible
Saw a mod somewhere mentioning that it has to do with the laws of some countries but cant verify if its true

it has to do with laws in US of A. Local state laws, not neccessarily federal laws.

Local state laws have been struck down in 2011.
Also if you use Chrome Dev it will warn you against entering personal information (site not secure) so give it a fake DOB.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Turkish:

Whatever the reason, it's really stupid. I just had to enter it in to look at the store page for XCOM....a game I ALREADY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ OWN LOL. It did indeed used to save the date so you didn't have to enter it every time, so I'm not sure what the guy who said it's impossible was talking about. Unless he meant it's NOW impossible. Because it definitely worked before.

Changed on the 6th to a session cookie.

:qr:

It still expires 1 year in the future, and I traced the network requests and it still broadcasts the human-readable lastagecheckage.

[Gummiel]

Yeah I can't find a way to make it save my birthday when going to store pages anymore, it worked on my old hardware like 2 months ago (which I had for like 4-5 years) but can't find a way to make it do it now on my new hardware, and I am living in Denmark (Europe) even. The fact that it was first on my new hardware make me think the option is still there in the files somewhere, but just not exposed in the UI really

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Enso Gummiel:

Yeah I can't find a way to make it save my birthday when going to store pages anymore, it worked on my old hardware like 2 months ago (which I had for like 4-5 years) but can't find a way to make it do it now on my new hardware, and I am living in Denmark (Europe) even. The fact that it was first on my new hardware make me think the option is still there in the files somewhere, but just not exposed in the UI really

It was changed to a session cookie about 6 weeks ago. So every time you close Steam or log out it will erase it.
Apparently the ESRB requires that age gates work that way and VALVE choose to implement it.

So this will not go away.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It saves the date in BPM. You just click ok.

[EchelonOne]

This is total f'n BS! Steam SHOULD create an option (as in parental), to remember the birthdate of the owner of the account. I'm 51 and feel like I'm getting unnecessarily proofed by some child that is younger than me. Jump through this hoop, crawl under here, roll over, give me money, stand up, give me more money, kneel & give me even more money... Total BS!!!