Timmey said:
Good reply really addressed my points, he clearly laid out how VAC worked and why they had been using it in that way, whats the problem?
I didn't have a problem with your initial point, just the idea that a "CEO of a billion dollar company" shouldn't take the time to go and explain why they've been doing something incredibly sketchy. It's like you're implying that people aren't being grateful that they're given an explanation. Transparency should be a given, especially when it boils down to one of their former anti-cheating methods basically spying on users.
And the problem is probably that some people consider this a violation of their privacy, that steam's been dabbling in their browsing history. Even if they didn't do anything with it, and even if it happens to be the oudated measure, it still means that Steam has had free access to people's browser history for a long time, without anyone knowing. The only line that I thought was really, really stupid was the "if you don't like it, don't use it."
It doesn't really work that well when this was revealed years into the steam-service when a lot of people have already spent a lot of money on steam games. Those games are tied to the steam library and simply upping and leaving when Steam changed the rules mid-game isn't that easy for a lot of people. Those games weren't bought when people knew about this, which is why it's not fair to simply claim "don't like it, don't use it". Steam has already sold a ton of people games without revealing that they have had free access to their browser history.
