Am I able to get steam mobile auth without a phone, and still not have a trade hold?

[Green Partyhat]

I use email auth, but i get a trade hold, which discourages people from trading with me, which sucks. Is there any alternatives?

[Clan Wolf]

before reading this, if your using a web browser and steam doesnt have HTTPS verified.
so the green lock symbol VALVE Corp. [US] is not there.

log out immediately, its been doing that that lately and its really unsecure. Onto your concern...

everyone uses email authenication and everyone must have at the very least have a basic mobile that gets calls and sms, all services employ this now.

You could get tech savy and setup a voip account that acts like a mobile which you control through your pc, its a measure for being annoymous but i wouldnt call it quick and easy

steam requires you give them a mobile number, in case your account is hacked. you can have sms sent to you a reset code etc (so keeping mobile updated is important)

but if you fail to do this before losing your mobile, this here will sort you
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithLogin/

use steam desktop authenicator (not by valve) its the external software program steam customers wanted so they dont have to use a mobile app, so someone in the community wrote it, prolly will end up working at valve one day..

steam is an open API, so uses their open api keys so you can login through it like bot sites.

it will just use your accounts mobile number and will activate steam into thinking your using the mobile app. gives you the tokens you need to verify trades with players.

read instructions and write things down..its fairly straight forward, on my alt (2nd pc heh) i logged in with no trouble and was ready to go and main is ready now thanks to the link above ^.

take in consideration security, strong passwords/licienced anti-virus (if you use free stuff, your runnning risks) channel your trading goods to another account, on a another pc if you can.

So then through that 2nd desktop authenicator account setup which you use to trade with. This will limit harm to your main account as you dont use it to trade with others, only your alt.

if your lazy about your online security, this isnt for you. because you will run the risk of losing everything. concerns about the software itself? its open source and is widely used by non app goers.......its safe provided you are...

INSTRUCTIONS: write everything down notepad is good

run program> click setup new account (just login)

your steam account login

name
password

(should be long and complicated, no words. mix of letters, numbers, special characters and upper case letters you can even use _ - + = : ; even a space

so you login into like any other bot key, it sends you a email verification code, enter that on the 2nd prompt.

just as the 3rd prompt for passkey below appears, assuming your steam account mobile is up to date. you get a sms code, but dont use it just yet. its after passkey

4th prompt 'its own sauce' it will ask you to make a passkey, just a password not the same as your steam login, but just as complex.

5th prompt 'its own sauce' it will give out a revocation code ###### (its just 1 letter at the beginning and 5 numbers), use this when it asks for it. write it down. if you skipped revocation code latter when it asks you will have to begin again.

6th prompt enter sms code, you were given ###### (its a code of 5 numbers)

7th prompt it asks for the revocation code ######, enter that.

you should get a email notification, steam gaurd mobile authenticator is enabled successfully on your account. GOOD JOB

now go trade, use the automatically generated tokens you see changed every 10 seconds to verify trades with others