Steam guard is crap

Turn it off if you don't like it?

I have no problems with it

Turn it off. But don´t complain if your account gets taken.

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Better than getting your account stolen.

Given the amount of money my Steam account represents, I'm more than happy to suffer 30 seconds of inconvenience in return for the added security.

"for every site that support Steam" uhhh wut

OTP (One-Time Password) is getting more popular these day.
To get to Steam, Steam guard send an OTP to my Gmail. Gmail send and OTP to my phone.

30 seconds to verify your account can save you 30 days of dealing with Steam "support" if your acc gets stolen.

Think about that.

Per browser not per site. Unless you change your browser more than your underwear your issue is elsewhere.

I wanted to test if gmail SMS + steam guard works well. I gave out my username and my password + email and password and i got over 90+ steamguard codes + LOTS of sms. So its pretty nice.

Only thing that kinda annoys me is the new feature where you have to give your browser a "friendly name". That addition is utterly useless.

It's a great protection system and worth it for lots of people who did put loads of money on their account. If you hate it so much just disable it and enjoy getting your account hacked from a simple keylogger or such..

For me it's good. I feel my account is really well protected with that.

Omg receiving emails is such a pain and takes more than a minute to process.

Deactivate it then, but please don't spam the forum when your account gets hijacked.

Agreed! You have 24 games, so you don't really need it :D

Better safe than sorry.

I like it.

It's like complaining about the seat belt in your car...

E-mail accounts are so much more easily compromised. I really can't see how "SteamGuard" does anything more than request confirmation from an unreliable account.

I have no problem with guard, though it's annoying sometimes (I wish I could authenticate my home computer permanently and use guard codes on others), but steam login via website is recently glitching on me. From time to time it refuses proper password until captcha verification is displayed - and then accepts the same password with no hesitation. I hope it's sorted out soon. cause it is extremely frustrating, I get scared that my acc have been stolen every time.

I do NOT agree it is crap. And if you think it's a pain to do so, then you can let yourself get hacked.

There is an elementary concept that so far in IT always stayed true. Either something is convenient, or secure, never both at the same time. That goes for everything, encrypted email, virus or firewall protection, OS file security/permissions, bicycle locks, and here Steamguard.

There are so many examples when some people tried to make something secure as well as convenient and it almost everytime backfired. Microsoft Windows is full of those mistakes. Or when security gets centralized so that only one person/server/company has to worry about security for all others... yeah, that always worked well...

So: Be happy that something like steamguard is in place. Users still can screw it up (using same password in steam and your email), but its pretty good as it is.

Last time I got a SteamGuard notice is when I was moving to new laptop or logging in through new browser. No more notice after that.

So if you getting notice every time you log in, perhaps there is something in your system or browser that prevents Steam to identify your computer?

You can shut it off if it's a pain for you. I hope there'd be more security options like mobil messages along with e-mail.