Disable "link filter"

[Jumpsteadeh]

This has been a thing for a while - if you open a link in Steam's chat, it opens a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ window asking if you trust the link (as if I would have clicked it if I didn't!). But luckily, some nice people had made a Firefox plugin that would skip past that.

But now, after an update, it opens that in a Steam window, which doesn't even have the decency to close itself when it's done. It's incredibly annoying, considering how often me and a friend trade links.

Anyone figure out how to disable this yet?

[Zefar]

There is no way to disable this link filter. Also If that was possible, people would disable it and then click the bad links and get into trouble. Then whine to support.

[Jumpsteadeh]

Originally posted by Zefar:

There is no way to disable this link filter. Also If that was possible, people would disable it and then click the bad links and get into trouble. Then whine to support.

If a mentally ill child stabs itself in the balls with a pair of scissors, you don't make scissors illegal, you give the child stab-proof underwear. Give me an option deep in the settings where I have to check a box and then say yes 5 times to turn the damn thing off, I'll click "accept" on a terms of service, I don't care. This is an utterly ridiculous "feature". If this is to stop people from whining, it failed, because here I am, whining away.

[Zefar]

Originally posted by Jumpsteadeh:

Originally posted by Zefar:

There is no way to disable this link filter. Also If that was possible, people would disable it and then click the bad links and get into trouble. Then whine to support.

If a mentally ill child stabs itself in the balls with a pair of scissors, you don't make scissors illegal, you give the child stab-proof underwear. Give me an option deep in the settings where I have to check a box and then say yes 5 times to turn the damn thing off, I'll click "accept" on a terms of service, I don't care. This is an utterly ridiculous "feature". If this is to stop people from whining, it failed, because here I am, whining away.

Heres the thing, there is probably an impressive amount of "Normal" people clicking these bad links.

You won't get an option for the link filter.

[Jumpsteadeh]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Originally posted by Jumpsteadeh:

If a mentally ill child stabs itself in the balls with a pair of scissors, you don't make scissors illegal, you give the child stab-proof underwear. Give me an option deep in the settings where I have to check a box and then say yes 5 times to turn the damn thing off, I'll click "accept" on a terms of service, I don't care. This is an utterly ridiculous "feature". If this is to stop people from whining, it failed, because here I am, whining away.

Heres the thing, there is probably an impressive amount of "Normal" people clicking these bad links.

You won't get an option for the link filter.

You seem to have forgotten this was already implimented. The steam filter has been a thing for at least a year, but now that it's on the client instead of my browser, I can't skip it. Do you think those "normal" idiots were intricately tricked into downloading a third party browser addon that bypassed the link, and in that extremely unlikely scenario, that it somehow became Valve's problem? All they did was create another level of inconvenience for anyone with common sense.

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by Jumpsteadeh:

Originally posted by Zefar:

Heres the thing, there is probably an impressive amount of "Normal" people clicking these bad links.

You won't get an option for the link filter.

You seem to have forgotten this was already implimented. The steam filter has been a thing for at least a year, but now that it's on the client instead of my browser, I can't skip it. Do you think those "normal" idiots were intricately tricked into downloading a third party browser addon that bypassed the link, and in that extremely unlikely scenario, that it somehow became Valve's problem? All they did was create another level of inconvenience for anyone with common sense.

Some ppl need to be protected from themselves

Security like this can only be applied for everyone or no one. Making security features, as history has proven many times is a recipe to disaster.

[Jumpsteadeh]

Originally posted by Zetikla:

Originally posted by Jumpsteadeh:

You seem to have forgotten this was already implimented. The steam filter has been a thing for at least a year, but now that it's on the client instead of my browser, I can't skip it. Do you think those "normal" idiots were intricately tricked into downloading a third party browser addon that bypassed the link, and in that extremely unlikely scenario, that it somehow became Valve's problem? All they did was create another level of inconvenience for anyone with common sense.

Some ppl need to be protected from themselves

Security like this can only be applied for everyone or no one. Making security features, as history has proven many times is a recipe to disaster.

If someone's stupid enough to click on bad links, they're too stupid to turn off the link filter in the options. Therefore, an option to disable it should exist.

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by Jumpsteadeh:

Originally posted by Zetikla:

Some ppl need to be protected from themselves

Security like this can only be applied for everyone or no one. Making security features, as history has proven many times is a recipe to disaster.

If someone's stupid enough to click on bad links, they're too stupid to turn off the link filter in the options. Therefore, an option to disable it should exist.

What they do outside of steam is one thing. Letting ppl freely send phishing links snd such on steam is another one, a safety risk that Vslve likely dont want to toggle if not necessary.

The problem here is everyone thinks they know better. Yet the 70k or so phished accounts shows otherwise

There are certain things which are not really up to negotiation as much as I can tell, profanity filters and link filters are likely among those.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Jumpsteadeh:

it opens a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ window asking if you trust the link (as if I would have clicked it if I didn't!).

You'd be surprised...

[Stinkdrinker]

I'm only curious to what gets filtered because websites such as 8ch get blocked.

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by Ultimate Programmer:

I'm only curious to what gets filtered because websites such as 8ch get blocked.

that is because (from what Ive heard) those sites gives acces to some very much disturbing NSFW imagery(?) and things like this.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Ultimate Programmer:

I'm only curious to what gets filtered because websites such as 8ch get blocked.

An adult imageboard that even managed to get pulled out of Google's search results?

Not much to wonder there.

[Jumpsteadeh]

I'm not talking about link removed, I rarely get that, and it's usually just when trying to link an image I googled, so it's from some obscure site.

EVERY link has to go through the "are you sure you want to leave Steam?", which does NOTHING to block harmful websites, it just holds idiots a tiny bit more accountable for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. Which the browser based system did just fine, and which could be blocked with an addon. It doesn't stop anyone from going to harmful websites at all. They just click "yes", same as if they were linked to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ youtube.

[Stinkdrinker]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Ultimate Programmer:

I'm only curious to what gets filtered because websites such as 8ch get blocked.

An adult imageboard that even managed to get pulled out of Google's search results?

Not much to wonder there.

4ch hasn't been a problem when it comes to linking, and 8ch is hardly a different website in terms of content.

[Tito Shivan]

That site is also filtered.

[Stinkdrinker]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

That site is also filtered.

Personally hasn't been blocked for me ever. Should probably be fixed then. It's definetly word filtered on the fourms.