unless they start showing ads on their pages.įrom a personal point of view, I just don't see any point in closing Steam when not playing unless its resource usage is giving a problem (which shouldn't happen unless you have 4GB ram or less). Valve doesn't really have any need to collect user data otherwise (private company, doesn't have ads or any of that kind of bullshit that relies on personal data) so you shouldn't need to worry about stuff like that. do you prefer strategy or horror games, are you okay with violence or prefer non-violent games, etc).

Other than that, it also logs what game pages you've viewed on the store, which can just alter what recommendations you get (e.g. Only type of 'data gathering' I know of that Steam does, is scan what processes are currently running when you're playing in a VAC protected server, as it searches for known cheats on your system.

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