I don't my profile to come up when Googling it.

[Schamyl006]

When searcing my old nick on Google, my profile comes up. This makes me unable to hide my profile, no matter what I change it to, no matter what I change my Steam ID to, no matter how I make it private, it will still come up and whoever is looking for me will find it. They will google my old name, they will click on and see my account.

Is there a way of having my account not appearing on Google or any other web browser?

[Phantom]

Google uses stuff from things already cached.

There's nothing much you can do.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

It will probably propagate within a week or two.

What you can do is change your profile URL rather then your name, then the URL from the Google result will just go to a 404 page.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Originally posted by Harold:

Originally posted by Reggaejunkiedrew:

What you can do is change your profile URL rather then your name, then the URL from the Google result will just go to a 404 page.

It says on the Internet that the Steam URL and the Steam ID are different, and that the Steam URL can never be changed, it will always lead to your profile no matter what your ID is :/

You CAN change the URL (third input box under edit profile is custom URL), but yeah I see yours is set to the number ID which will always redirect to the same place regardless.

If it was already a custom URL, and you changed it, the old custom URL in the result would break, but yeah in your case it would still take time to propagate, not much you can do about it.

If you are EU you may be able to submit an information removal request but I imagine it'll be cleared from Google before that would go through anyway if it was eligible.

It's also worth noting the ID itself will always be tied to your profile, so if they have that # they will always be able to find your profile from it, nothing you can do about it.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by gamer:

Can any Steam staff make it not appear on web browsers If I request it directly?

No.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by gamer:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

No.

Is there at least any way to temporarily disable having a profile? Being able to play games and use the store, but having my profile disabled, and being able to reactivate it whenever I want?

Nope. Not the way you want it to.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by gamer:

Like, there should be the option to choose not having your profile on Web browsers

Steam is a web browser. Having your profile not on web browsers would mean having no profile at all.

Which you can get by setting your profile to private. All that remains will be the name. The name needs to be accessible because games use it to show your name in-game.

[Satoru]

You can’t complain about “privacy” while making your profile public and then whine that Google caches what you explicitly made public

Your privacy is what you make it.

[オナニー]

Well it seems as if you havent even tried contacting any authorities. Personally I think theres a limit on how effectively you can hide yourself on the web while still actively using it.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by gamer:

If I delete it, and cancel the deletion a few days before it reaches 30 days, maybe the cached Google search result could go away? Would that happen?

No, since you cancel the deletion and the profile therefore isn't deleted.

[Satoru]

If you think removing Google cache is magically going to stop offline harrassment you’re solving the wrong problem

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by gamer:

Wow, Steam's lack of some basic privacy features suck.

Because no matter what you do, they can always find you by simply googling any previous names cached on Google, and no matter what you change your custom ID to, the link they saved will always lead to your profile.

Like, there should be the option to choose not having your profile on Web browsers, or at least the option to have only people with fully activated Steam accounts see your account.

Not an issue with steam, you made a public profile on a public site. Steam can't control other companies caching web pages that exist on the profile. You can't have an internet account and not be accessible by a web browser. Also a fully activated Steam account is a laughable matter.

Originally posted by gamer:

Sorry to bump this thread, but it is less worse to bump it than creating a new thread.

When you delete a Steam account, it will be completely deleted only after 30 days passes, right?

If I delete it, and cancel the deletion a few days before it reaches 30 days, maybe the cached Google search result could go away? Would that happen?

No because you can't delete it and then cancel the deletion. When you request your account to be deleted there is a 30 day delay before it is deleted. No action is taken until then. Also only google can tell you how long their cached search results last.

The bigger questions are

1. So what if they can find your profile. Make it private to friends only. What exactly are you afraid they are going to do by knowing your steam profile?

The only real option you'd have is to make a new steam account they don't know about and family share the games from your old account to the new account.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by gamer:

They are planning to hack my Steam profile... they mentioned only 2 meters away from me and not even lowering their voice (because they know nothing would happen to them anyway) that they have friends who do account hackings, and that hacking a Steam account would be easy for them. They said that their hacker friend said that the only problem would be to know the profile itself to do the hacking. That is what I am talking about, that is why I am trying make my profile unfindable.

They are lying and/or trying to trick you or make you panic. There is not a single documented case of a steam account EVER being hacked. If your account is secured with 2fa there is basically no risk of your account being hacked. In fact its so secure the owner of Steam gave away his account info and password because he knew no one would be able to bypass the 2fa and he was correct

https://www.destructoid.com/stories/valve-s-gabe-newell-gives-out-his-steam-password-195709.phtml

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by gamer:

Originally posted by brian9824:

Not an issue with steam, you made a public profile on a public site. Steam can't control other companies caching web pages that exist on the profile. You can't have an internet account and not be accessible by a web browser. Also a fully activated Steam account is a laughable matter.

A lot of other people with very active profiles have their profiles public, yet their profiles don't come up when you google them. Mine comes up as the first result, no matter whose device I try on.

What about my profile makes it appear so easily?

Originally posted by brian9824:

So what if they can find your profile. Make it private to friends only. What exactly are you afraid they are going to do by knowing your steam profile?

They are planning to hack my Steam profile... they mentioned only 2 meters away from me and not even lowering their voice (because they know nothing would happen to them anyway) that they have friends who do account hackings, and that hacking a Steam account would be easy for them. They said that their hacker friend said that the only problem would be to know the profile itself to do the hacking. That is what I am talking about, that is why I am trying make my profile unfindable.

They're talking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

They can easily find such data if they're already this far on the road to claiming to want to hack you. If you've found it, they will already have done.

So they're lying.

And besides, that isn't how it works. If they can talk to you, they can hack you if they had the credibility. Don't fall for this - they're just trying to scare you.

Consider this also - if this were the case and users could hack merely by getting to know your profile details from a nickname search on Google, we'd all be ♥♥♥♥♥♥. And yet there has NEVER been a single documented case of anyone getting their steam account hacked. Plenty of people falling for scams and phishing.

Bottom line - if any true hacker wanted to get at you they simlpy would and wouldn't be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with telling you beforehand. It's complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.