Steamgifts should stop revealing email adresses of Steam accounts.

Use a different e-mail on Steamgifts, not the same one as on Steam. That is a general advise.

When you use the same email adress for steam and steamgifts you aren't very smart...

I, as example, use for sg a emailadress that got only created for sites that could spam me. After X years, or when the amount of unwelcome emails get too high, i delete the email adress and create a new one.
Each problem solved in a very easy and fast way.

It would make sense if cg would enforce mandatory email notification for winning giveaway and consider that email notification enough without needing to contact giveaway winner even if winner is online and entering other giveaways.

You don't need to use the same email address for SG and Steam tho, or at least I use two different ones.

Oh no not an email address!

<Grabs tin foil hat>

I use a different one, and I never got any spam from it, on my 11 years here.

Fully agree, especially now that we're not required anymore to chase down unresponsive winners. I don't see the benefit of exposing email addresses to other users.

Well, there are much simpler ways to get emails. It's a good thing Steam never reveals account names though.

The email thing was only ever useful for HB gift links right? But people would just enter the link so the winner can submit it themselves.
Yeah there's really no benefit to revealing people's emails, it's kinda weird to have so many of active Steam users. But also it's just an email.

Using different email adress for Steamgifts is not a solution, it is just ignoring the problem.

Ask this, if it isn't a problem that Steamgifts to share your email adress to people doing giveaway, why do you use different email adress?

If you are using different email, then you see and feel there is a problem and trying to dodge the bullet with inconvenient ways which causes more problem of its own instead of running or supporting the campaign to fix the gun problem once and for all.

So I seek your support in this matter. Steamgifts shouldn't share any email adress of any user.

Alternatively you can use email forwarding services and create a Steam Gifts only email address.
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Btw your vote is skewed, it's either accepting your "truth" and calling it an issue, or calling it a non-issue because not caring about doing the stupidest thing - using the same email address as with your account.

And yes, it's a minor inconvenience of putting in another email (gasp) and then doing nothing (which in your book equals to "inconvenient ways which causes more problem of its own").

btw adding another email instead of the main one is not ignoring the "problem". It's avoiding.
You can avoid things that you're aware of, but ignoring something means having no action against the thing - because you're ignoring it.

Email is showed to creator only if you win. So not winning is also simple solution.

Personally it's not a big issue, that email is just a proxy and it's not like I don't already get sent scam emails to it.

But fairly sure it breaks my countries data protection laws. And just because every user could set up a fake email or a proxy, doesn't mean we should presume every user has the same level of tech literacy to protect themselves. Even if the email itself is secure and not attached to steam, it still just a matter of privacy for some users.

There is currently no reason a users email should be given to another user. In the past steam had a feature for purchasing gifts and sending them via e-mail, but that got removed many many years ago. [Edit: 7 years, slightly less than I thought]. The only purpose now is to contact winners; but they shouldn't actually need an email address to do that. Most websites solved this issue decades ago by sending the email on the users behalf.

TLDR; I don't especially care if my e-mail is shown, but it shouldn't be.

Fair enough, I think an easy solution would be to just have a setting so you can toggle whether you want it shared.

I don't like emails being shown. The vast majority of games are sent directly through the site and if there is a reason to contact someone directly, just add them on Steam. I have never emailed anyone on this site and I don't think I have ever received an email from anyone, yet I can go view around 1200 users email addresses right now from my history of created giveaways.

It's not a major concern, but it still bothers me a little.

Amen, OP. It is quite stupid and outdated to show them.

100%

I dont want to know the real names and the birth year of the users I gift.

I am gonna bump this up here because this should still very much be addressed. There is no real good reason to show the email (if you really wanna send something by email there can either be a "request email button" or just ask the winner for it) and it just happened to me last night that someone used my email for something not intended. While what happened to me was someone being wholesome I can think of many many malicious uses instead.

And no, using a different email for SG is not a proper solution, is just a bandaid patch. Not exposing data unnecessarily is a proper solution.

And if whoever send that last night is reading (because there is no way of me knowing who it was or replying back and considering the email used I am 99% sure it came from someone on this site):

While I really, really appreciate the gesture, it does make me really uncomfortable to accept something like that (and that it was sent in general) so I don't think I will be. Thank you through, really.

Where to see the email, and is there a way to edit it?