If you don't want other users to see your profile, you can easily hide it.
- Go to the official Steam website or launch the service client;
- Log in to your account by entering your username and password;
- Open your profile and click "Edit Profile";
- Now go to the "Privacy Settings" menu;
- Select a profile status and click Save Changes. Please note that even if your profile is hidden, users will be able to find it on the network and see the history of nicknames (read how to clear it).
Before you hide your profile, decide what exactly you want to receive. If you need to hide your account only from strangers, then in the settings select "Friends only". If you want no one to see your profile except you, then select the "Hidden" item. To make the profile visible to all users again, check the "Public" box.
Also in the privacy settings, you can limit who can leave you comments or see your inventory. Everything is done in the same way.
Why hide your profile
There may be several reasons. Here are the most popular ones:
- You do not want other users to see your country of residence, your name, how many games you have, your avatar and achievements when playing;
- After the game, in the comments to your profile they write various nasty things that you are tired of deleting;
- You are tired of receiving messages about the exchange of items. After you hide the inventory, other users will not be able to see what things you have;
How to view a user's inventory if their profile is hidden
To do this given user should be on your friends list. Go to his profile, click "More", and then "Offer a trade ...". After that, a window with your items will fly out. Click on the "Their Inventory" tab, after which you can see all the user's things, including trading cards and in-game items. This method works only if it is the Steam profile that is hidden, and not its inventory.
Very often there are situations when playing Dota 2 we want to see someone's profile, but it turns out to be hidden. Most often, this is necessary for traders who are looking for something interesting in their inventory, or just to add as a friend. The motives may be different, but often we see this sign:
In this article, you will learn how to bypass this sign and look hidden profile two ways. These methods will work until Valve changes the menu in Shift-Tab, that is, at least for a very long time.
Method one:
In this way, we can see the hidden profile we are interested in right during the game
1) During the game, press Shift + Tab (Open the Steam menu in the game)
2) Here click View Players or List of Players
3) In the window that opens, all the players who are in the same game with you will be shown, we are looking for the player we are interested in and click on the Profile button.
4) We look at the player's profile. But his profile can be hidden by the privacy settings!
Method two:
With this method, we will have to wait until the end of the game. Also, the method only works if the profile owner went to the dotabuff
1) Find our game on
2) We go to the profile of the person we need.
3) Scroll down the page and click on the link next to the inscription ALIASES
4) And there will be a link and id to Steam account.
Valve Software has announced an update to the system for protecting the personal data of users of the Steam gaming platform. Now every user can make their Steam account a little more private..
… and in particular, provide other users with access to their game profile, game library, inventory, etc.
But most importantly, now the user profile in can do " Hidden " or visible " Only for friends «.
In terms of data privacy, the innovation, of course, looks significant. On the other hand, this also means that useful services such as, say, Steam Spy, are automatically rendered useless (for now, at least). Since they worked on the basis of just open user data. But now is not about that. And about that...
… how to set profile privacy through Steam account
There seems to be nothing complicated, but at first some points are a little puzzling, and besides, the privacy settings are in a separate section, outside the main " settings» account. Therefore, in order:
how to open the privacy settings section:
- on the computer, launch the Steam client (we wait until it downloads the on-duty update) and log in;
- click on the nickname in the upper right corner of the client window and select " View profile «;
- in the next window, click the button Edit profile " and than - " My privacy settings «.
New section in this moment time looks like this:
The settings available to the user are presented in the following assortment:
- « My profile » — user profile visibility (default is « Open«);
- « game details " - visibility of game parameters (default is " Only for friends“), you can immediately activate the option “Always keep the total playtime private” (Always hide the total time in games);
- « Inventory » — visibility of «Inventory» (by default « Only for friends") with the option "Always keep Steam Gifts private" (Always hide gifts on Steam);
- « Can post comments on my profile " (default " Only for friends") - here you can specify who can leave comments in the profile, or disable them altogether (option " Hide«).
Changing the "My Profile" setting automatically changes all settings. Those. if in " My profile ” you specify, for example, “Hidden”, then everything else will also be “Hidden”. But if the profile is left "Public", then by default all other parameters will be visible only to your friends, unless you separately specify "Public" or "Hidden" for each.
Briefly about the main privacy settings:
My Profile : Visibility of Steam profile data, friends list, badges, level, comment, and list of groups you are a member of.
Game Details : Visibility of the game list in your account, Wishlist, Achievement list, , as well as your current status on Steam (none or "In Play" and with the name of the game you're currently playing).
Inventory : Visibility of your Inventory, including the list of items you've received in games, the list of Steam Trading Cards you have, and the list of Steam Gifts.
In addition, in the section My privacy settings”There are also two more options that the user is not supposed to change. "My basic details" (user data) contains your game nickname and avatar - they are always open and available to everyone. And the visibility of each individual screenshot or work in the workshop is already assigned separately in the corresponding sections of the client.
Valve also noted that they are currently working on an even newer “invisibility” mode for user profiles. In this mode, the player will be displayed simply as "offline" to outsiders, but the main functionality of the client will be available, in particular, it will be possible to send messages through the Steam account in the usual way.
Please note, if you want to make a deal with this user, that he is blocked.