@PatrickWirth This is an inference from multiple inadequate distinctions in their Privacy Policy, including that of "chat areas" (all deemed "public") from direct messages. The statement that they "don't sell" Personal Data is meaningless when their network of (very money-involving) contracts is so ridiculously large. I would point to the RedShell controversy to remind everyone that every major developer is also an advertiser
@PatrickWirth And because Steam now interoperates with so many different additional (and more unscrupulous) loaders from other publishers, every one of those providers extends the legally accessible network, and so on. This is the outcome of usurping the function of Steam Spy, a metrics platform they banned years ago. Experience, and Facebook engineers, tell us that the farther your data goes, (given adequate "anonymization") the less accountable the collector becomes to its exposure.
