Browser or app may not be secure Steam youtube link issue. Please help.

[Mythiceu]

When i try to link my youtube with my steam i put my email in and the it says This browser or app may not be secure i dont know what to do please help. Thanks.

[chacecaines1]

copy the link on your steam page and then paste it in your web browser like google chrome or something.

[Mythiceu]

Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

[AustrAlien2010]

But why doesn't Steam have a secure browser? People should be able to link their videos without having to download another browser. Sort of rediculous that the base client does not offer this functionality. Shouldn't it be updated or something, so that it works?

The Steam client interface obviously does not work very well, if they cannot even do this without having to download another program.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

But why doesn't Steam have a secure browser? People should be able to link their videos without having to download another browser, imho. Sort of rediculous that the base client does not offer this functionality. Shouldn't it be updated or something, so that it works?

The Steam client obviously does not work very well, if they cannot even do this without having to download another program.

Because the browser was never intended to be a fully fleshed out browser. You literally had to have a browser already to even get the steam client so what are you even on about.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

But why doesn't Steam have a secure browser? People should be able to link their videos without having to download another browser.

Everyone should have a browser next to a rudimentary browser in a game platform.

[AustrAlien2010]

That doesn't make sense, because then people cannot see age-restricted content in Steam anymore, if the client doesn't allow them to login.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It was Google's decision last year to make it act this way.

[AustrAlien2010]

Originally posted by Fiddle:

so what are you even on about.

I am talking about age-restricted videos.
I suppose we have wait for a solution, because this is not working very well, if people cannot age-restrict their own videos anymore, without blocking themselves from viewing those videos through Steam. This decision results in causing age-restricted videos to be completely inaccessible through Steam, unless Steam updates their browser to enable their users to access those videos.

For instance, you want to watch a video that happens to be age-restricted, because there is bad language, blood, explicit graphics, or violence in the video, and you want to access that through the interface, by using the Steam in-game overlay. Right now, that is not possible, it seems.
Just imagine how impractical this is for walkthroughs and such, that happen to show a video of a game that is already age-gated on Steam.

This answer does not solve anything in that regard, because the issue is still there, and this is not a solution for everyone.


I am guessing they authenticate the Steam app at Google once more?
What I think is a good solution is that the Steam user gets an age gate for age-restricted videos, sort of in the same way as it get done on YouTube. So that they can just put in their age and then it loads, and if they are too young, the app sends them to another place.

Currently, this situation only handicaps the users who properly set age-gates on their videos, because the users who don't care, do not receive any restrictions at all, and can watch their videos regardless.
Right now, they are encouraging us to remove the age-gates, but I do not want to do that, because otherwise I would not have age-gated them in the first place. If I remove the age-gates, those videos pop-up in everyone playlists on YouTube, and they start auto-playing, etcetera, and I do not want that to happen, because some videos aren't appropriate to just pop-up in everyone's playlist on YouTube. That would only draw a lot of unwanted attention, because those videos aren't supposed to pop-up in someone's playlist, if they are just casually watching some videos, and therefor I need to have them age-gated.

I should not just remove the age-gates from those videos, because that wouldn't be proper. Right now, if the Steam user wants to watch some of those videos, they are encouraged to make an entire YouTube account, which is an extreme measure, if a simple age-gate would also suffice. They have to jump through a lot of hoops.

Anyway, I'll figure out a way around this. It's no problem. I'll figure something out. It's just, that the age restricted videos become pretty difficult to access now through Steam, and I have to make a lot of extra steps, and the users end up having to see them on YouTube, instead of being able to stay on Steam. So they end up on the YouTube website, in order to view the videos, while my idea was for them to be able to see them in the Steam client, as I originally intended. So, that the Steam community could stay on Steam, and the YouTube community could stay on YouTube.


Long story short: It seems impossible now to see age-restricted videos through Steam.

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

I'm sorry to bumping up the old topic, just had that same issues (after reinstalling Win). It was all good couple of months ago and now in order to upload video on Steam we should use browser outside of Steam instead of built-in one? Why complicate such simple things in the first place?

[AustrAlien2010]

EDIT:
I tested it with the new cookie settings, but this still does not work.
Forget I even mentioned it. It still says the browser is insecure. Even after accepting all those cookies. This is still not fixed.

[Aya]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

EDIT:
I tested it with the new cookie settings, but this still does not work.
Forget I even mentioned it. It still says the browser is insecure. Even after accepting all those cookies. This is still not fixed.

At this point, i think the most that can be done is hope that Valve supports the embedding of other video hosting sites, cuz it's clear that simply having YouTube and nothing else is no longer adequate. Vimeo and BitChute exist, just an FYI.