Can I hide my steam ID from everyone?

[UnknownFortune]

i don’t want it to appear to anyone. So is there a way to hide it or should I make a new account??

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by UnknownFortune:

Can I hide my steam ID from everyone?

i don’t want it to appear to anyone. So is there a way to hide it or should I make a new account??

You can not hide your SteamID, no.

This 76561198347355541 is always visible.

[Brian9824]

No matter what account you make your steam id for that account will always be visible, it also means nothing, so why are you afraid of people seeing your ID?

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by UnknownFortune:

i don’t want it to appear to anyone. So is there a way to hide it or should I make a new account??

Here, have mine: 76561197968746976

It's senseless to try to hide it. No one can do anything with it.

[Ice Scream]

if you want to hide something like that then you should not be on socials at all.

[St✩rlight]

Originally posted by Brian9824:

so why are you afraid of people seeing your ID?

I really don't think that's any of your business, is it?

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

Originally posted by Brian9824:

so why are you afraid of people seeing your ID?

I really don't think that's any of your business, is it?

Knowing someones Steam ID does absolutely nothing.
It can't be used in anyway against you.

[Бобок]

And in this case there’s a chance the original poster was talking about their unique login name, and it indeed makes sense to be willing to hide it (like from previous nicknames history in the profile).

[Tito Shivan]

Your SteamID is public. It's basically what the Steam API uses to interact with you.
However someone having it isn't going to have access to anything you haven't made public yourself.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I forget where but people can get your Account Name somehow from one of these identifiers.

[Thiesen]

Originally posted by WinterSorrow:

I forget where but people can get your Account Name somehow from one of these identifiers. :badluck:

If the SteamID is an incrementing number then no... since it would be a number that Is getting bigger each time a new account is mcreated...

[ペンギン]

Even if it were possible, devs and everyone else would still have access to it through the SteamAPI and they are used as unique identifier as example in games/regulary software for authentication/token creation, linking accounts, friend lists, high scores or whatever. In the end, everything runs via this id, whether in the client or via external profiles.

Hiding it would make sense, as profiling can be carried out via unique account IDs and combined data, but this would require far-reaching changes to be implemented.

Especially with regard to the fact that not every product/dev needs this data and it is not the first time that these ids have been specifically collected for profiling. The problem with Steam in general is that too much data is visible from the outside without logging in.

At the current level, only the pseudo-privacy settings help to “hide” the profile from the public access. However, it does not help that it is still monitored and evaluated on some pages or against access via Steam(Web)API

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by ペンギン:

Especially with regard to the fact that not every product/dev needs this data and it is not the first time that these ids have been specifically collected for profiling. The problem with Steam in general is that too much data is visible from the outside without logging in.

The only visible data in Steam is the one you make public.

And hiding it through a Steam login is just security theatre as it offers no friction to retrieve the data, since Steam accounts were public (Steam had a 'visible only to logged users' privacy settings which hwas removed because of that. It only served to give a false sense of privacy)

[St✩rlight]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

I really don't think that's any of your business, is it?

Knowing someones Steam ID does absolutely nothing.
It can't be used in anyway against you.

I don't know why you decided to tell me that.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

Originally posted by Brian9824:

so why are you afraid of people seeing your ID?

I really don't think that's any of your business, is it?

Thats up for the OP to decide, not you. if he thinks its somehow a negative thing which is driving this request then yes, it is indeed my business as i'm trying to help the OP.

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Knowing someones Steam ID does absolutely nothing.
It can't be used in anyway against you.

I don't know why you decided to tell me that.

So do you have any suggestions to help the OP, as so far you just seem to be attacking the users who are actually trying to help. Do YOU think its bad to know someone elses Steam idea, otherwise why is it your business how others try to help?

[SpeedFreak1972]

You still haven't answered what you think we can do with that id ... as for the question itself no method to hide it at least not by us you would take it up with support.