How to set birthdate?

[Neon Henchman]

Yes I know I can set my age at any time I try to see a 17+ game, but it saves the dates I've put somehow. At first I was putting my birthday like normal, in April, but one day I accidentaly left if at January, and now everytime I go see a game requiring it, it saved the January part, the rest though is accurate.

I know it doesn't matter now that I'm 27, but I'm just so OCD that I want everything on my account to be perfect, so having it be saved to January because I misclicked once is utterly annoying, either allow you to change it directly on your profile or don't save it at all.

[Hanomaly]

Steam does not save your birthday.
And there is no way you have a legit OCD diagnosis that makes you care about your birthday in Steam.

The birthday you enter to see age restricted games it literally forgotten next session. So there is no where to officially update your birthday with Steam. Next time it asks just enter the right thing if you want.

Sorry... i just get really aggravated how casually people throw around an OCD diagnosis now a days to try to leverage their issue.

[Hanomaly]

So anyway your wish is already reality. Steam doesn’t save your birthday at all.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Valve doesn't care if the month is exact. This is just indemnification.

I'll give you the full copy/pasta now...

Please use the search. Seriously, my copy/pasta from the last 1,000 threads...

Age is set by cookies. If you have to enter the date again, you are deleting Steam's cookies.

(This is about all warnings like the one for the game hub and age gates) Last stage check (View Page button) will never be set.

Been asked soooooo many times that Valve even made a Q&A for it...

Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?

A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1708442022337025126

[rawWwRrr]

Unless legislation changes and allows Steam to exist within a "safe harbor", the age gates will never go away.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Unless legislation changes and allows Steam to exist within a "safe harbor", the age gates will never go away.

What country are you in?

[Crashed]

Step 1: Clear cookies.
Step 2: Set date to 1/1/1900
Step 3: Go into cookies (F12 tools in Chrome/Edge)
Step 4: Delete lastagecheckage (it's invasive, thus why one of the parts was removed to anonymize and comply with GDPR)
Step 5: Change birthtime to something like 1 and set its expiration date to 2099 or something ridiculously far away.
Step 6: Access ESRB "M" and other games the developer turned on the age collection page without that page showing up again.

[Neon Henchman]

Okay, so it's cookies, that's what I didn't saw in the other threads, they just said "Steam doesn't save the birthday", although here's what I mean, I deleted cookies with CCleaner and this is what happens: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElxDPBYXgAQi_eN?format=jpg&name=medium

The day AND year are mine, it saved those, but the month is constantly the wrong thing and, despite putting it back to April, it saves the wrong thing.

This is my issue, I don't know where to locate the cookie that saves the birthday and it bugs me since last year.


By the way, I do have a mental disability and I never once felt insulted when people use terms like OCD or something.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Neon Henchman:

Okay, so it's cookies, that's what I didn't saw in the other threads, they just said "Steam doesn't save the birthday", although here's what I mean, I deleted cookies with CCleaner and this is what happens: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElxDPBYXgAQi_eN?format=jpg&name=medium

The day AND year are mine, it saved those, but the month is constantly the wrong thing and, despite putting it back to April, it saves the wrong thing.

This is my issue, I don't know where to locate the cookie that saves the birthday and it bugs me since last year.


By the way, I do have a mental disability and I never once felt insulted when people use terms like OCD or something.

They likely removed the month because they knew they were storing personally identifiable information without disclosing it in the privacy policy. That way they could claim it is anonymous.

[Neon Henchman]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Neon Henchman:

Okay, so it's cookies, that's what I didn't saw in the other threads, they just said "Steam doesn't save the birthday", although here's what I mean, I deleted cookies with CCleaner and this is what happens: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElxDPBYXgAQi_eN?format=jpg&name=medium

The day AND year are mine, it saved those, but the month is constantly the wrong thing and, despite putting it back to April, it saves the wrong thing.

This is my issue, I don't know where to locate the cookie that saves the birthday and it bugs me since last year.


By the way, I do have a mental disability and I never once felt insulted when people use terms like OCD or something.

They likely removed the month because they knew they were storing personally identifiable information without disclosing it in the privacy policy. That way they could claim it is anonymous.

Are you sure about this? It's weird they would save the day and year, but not the month, also I do remember that the moment before it decided to save those, it never did before I accidentaly set it to January. Either way, is there a place on the computer where the cookie is saved? I could erase it so that I can set it the way I feel like.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Neon Henchman:

Originally posted by Crashed:

They likely removed the month because they knew they were storing personally identifiable information without disclosing it in the privacy policy. That way they could claim it is anonymous.

Are you sure about this? It's weird they would save the day and year, but not the month, also I do remember that the moment before it decided to save those, it never did before I accidentaly set it to January. Either way, is there a place on the computer where the cookie is saved? I could erase it so that I can set it the way I feel like.

They used to save the M/D/Y in a cookie called lastagecheckage. They blanked out the month in that cookie now.

You'll see that cookie mentioned in my bypass tutorial above.

[Asfastasican]

All of these answers are really bad. People want to know how to do it in the actual steam client, not your browser. If you simply want to reset the birthdate because you entered it wrong on accident or are annoyed by it being set to January, here is what you need to do. And this is the current method with the new steam redesign recently as well.

1. Click the Steam menu in the far upper left and click settings.
2. Click on the In Game tab on the left side.
3. Find the Delete Web Browser Data option and click on the Delete button.
4. Quit out of stream and log back in

That's it. Simple. All of these other suggestions are just a waste of time.

[Blake]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.