![]() On the plus side, it doesn't appear to be sending those credentials to GOG or to a third party all the login and scraping happens on your client side, as if you did it in your own web browser. So this isn't using the Steam API (which would be the "authorized" way to integrate with Steam though it may not have the capabilities needed), it is actually getting a cookie to use the Steam website using your credentials, then jumping all over the website and scraping data such as what games you own. Looking at the Steam plugin, for instance, plugin.py, it looks like this does in fact log you into the real Steam website, by navigating a browser to and asking you to log in there. ![]() Naturally, I'm reluctant to actually provide my Steam login credentials without a better understanding of what's happening here (and ideally, GOG would explain in more detail, rather than simply pointing us to the rather generic privacy policy). On the other hand, if the integration is actually simulating a Steam login, then it could do anything with my Steam account including getting me banned for a Steam TOS violation. If that's all that's going on here, that's perfectly reasonable since it doesn't give GOG (or whoever wrote this community integration) direct access to my Steam account, just access via a limited third-party API. We will not store your account credentials."īut it's also shown that this is a "community integration" which means even if GOG isn't storing my account credentials, how do I know the author of the "community integration" isn't able to access my Steam account?ĭoes anyone have any knowledge of what is actually happening with this integration? I know Steam has an API that allows third parties to look at your library, etc (in fact I've used that with GOG Connect to link my GOG account to Steam in the past). The privacy policy says "If you choose to connect your accounts from other platforms with GOG GALAXY 2.0., depending on the features that the particular integration currently supports, GOG will access personal and non-personal information such as your user name and user id, avatar, game list, gametime, game achievements, friend list (user name, user id, avatar) and their status, chat and conversation history.
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