Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

Let adult users disable the age check once and for all

Please let adults opt out of the age check — the system is broken

I've been contacting Steam Support about this issue for years, and I’m now posting here because the problem continues and support has directed me to the forums — again. The issue is simple:

I am an adult user. My Steam account is private, secure, and used only by me. No minors access my account. I have all content filters disabled in my store preferences, and yet I still have to enter my date of birth repeatedly when browsing the Steam Store.

Steam’s own UI says that disabling filters should remove this confirmation step. That is clearly not true in practice.

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What’s broken:

[]The prompt appears multiple times in a single session — It’s not limited to once per login. I can be browsing the store, open a game page, do something else, return to another game, and the prompt will appear again. []The birth year often defaults to a random date like 2010 — This causes immediate access denial unless I manually re-enter a valid year. []This happens across platforms and devices — Steam client, browser, mobile app, different systems, different networks — the same issue everywhere. []The preferences don’t work — I’ve explicitly disabled the warning filters, and the store still prompts me. This contradicts what the platform itself promises.

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This is a long-standing issue

The Steam community has raised this topic many times. Posts about this date back over seven years, and people still talk about the problem today. Here's one archived example:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/forum/10/846940248118585609/

Here’s another active thread on Reddit where users describe the same frustration:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/Cd1qFW6xug

It’s also reached the point where users have created unofficial tools just to avoid this broken prompt:

https://github.com/Will6855/Steam-Age-Check-Bypass/releases/tag/v1.0.0

That’s not just a red flag — it’s a full-blown alarm. People are willing to risk their accounts or security just to suppress something that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.

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What I’m asking for

Let me clarify: I am not asking Steam to store my date of birth. I understand the privacy concern. That’s fine.

What I’m asking is for Steam to honor my preference settings. If I’ve disabled all content filters in my store preferences, that should be enough to skip this prompt entirely. Whether or not Steam stores my birthday is irrelevant — you can solve this technically without storing sensitive information. You already track many user-level UI preferences. This one should be no different.

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Please forward this to someone at Valve with decision-making power. The current behavior is misleading, frustrating, and inconsistent with what the platform tells the user. It punishes responsible adult users who have configured their preferences correctly, and it offers no path to resolution.

It’s time for this to be fixed. [/quote]

Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?

A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1708442022337025126

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?

A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1708442022337025126

Oprindeligt skrevet af Maria:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1708442022337025126

I thought they'll give you a choice to stop asking your age if your account is more than 18 years old. It was a recent update iirc.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Maria:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1708442022337025126

:nkCool:

I thought they'll give you a choice to stop asking your age if your account is more than 18 years old. It was a recent update iirc.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?

A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

Please let adults opt out of the age check — the system is broken

I've been contacting Steam Support about this issue for years, and I’m now posting here because the problem continues and support has directed me to the forums — again. The issue is simple:

I am an adult user. My Steam account is private, secure, and used only by me. No minors access my account. I have all content filters disabled in my store preferences, and yet I still have to enter my date of birth repeatedly when browsing the Steam Store.

Steam’s own UI says that disabling filters should remove this confirmation step. That is clearly not true in practice.

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What’s broken:

• The prompt appears multiple times in a single session
It’s not limited to once per login. I can be browsing the store, open a game page, do something else, return to another game, and the prompt will appear again.

• The birth year often defaults to a random date like 2010
This causes immediate access denial unless I manually re-enter a valid year.

• This happens across platforms and devices
Steam client, browser, mobile app, different systems, different networks, the same issue everywhere.

• The preferences don’t work
I’ve explicitly disabled the warning filters, and the store still prompts me. This contradicts what the platform itself promises.

---

This is a long-standing issue

The Steam community has raised this topic many times. Posts about this date back over seven years, and people still talk about the problem today. Here's one archived example:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/forum/10/846940248118585609/

Here’s another active thread on Reddit where users describe the same frustration:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/s/Cd1qFW6xug

It’s also reached the point where users have created unofficial tools just to avoid this broken prompt:

{LINK FJERNET}https://github.com/Will6855/Steam-Age-Check-Bypass/releases/tag/v1.0.0

That’s not just a red flag — it’s a full-blown alarm. People are willing to risk their accounts or security just to suppress something that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.

---

What I’m asking for

Let me clarify: I am not asking Steam to store my date of birth. I understand the privacy concern. That’s fine.

What I’m asking is for Steam to honor my preference settings. If I’ve disabled all content filters in my store preferences, that should be enough to skip this prompt entirely. Whether or not Steam stores my birthday is irrelevant — you can solve this technically without storing sensitive information. You already track many user-level UI preferences. This one should be no different.

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Please forward this to someone at Valve with decision-making power. The current behavior is misleading, frustrating, and inconsistent with what the platform tells the user. It punishes responsible adult users who have configured their preferences correctly, and it offers no path to resolution.

It’s time for this to be fixed. [/quote]

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Find the update and post it here.

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

Yet, if it was fixed by a recent update I'm not aware of because it's not working on my account.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Maria:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Find the update and post it here.

:nkCool:

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

Yet, if it was fixed by a recent update I'm not aware of because it's not working on my account.

Someone uploaded a screenshot of it in a discord server I'm in. Maybe the feature isn’t officially available to everyone yet (or it was all a poor attempt to troll) :ReeneAHA:. Also, your account probably needs to be 18+. As for you OP, yours is still 12+, btw.

If you have friends with the 18+ badge, you could ask them. Some might be able to see the pop-up.

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Maria:

Someone uploaded a screenshot of it in a discord server I'm in. Maybe the feature isn’t officially available to everyone yet (or it was all a poor attempt to troll) :ReeneAHA:. Also, your account probably needs to be 18+. As for you OP, yours is still 12+, btw.

If you have friends with the 18+ badge, you could ask them. Some might be able to see the pop-up.

That doesn't really make sense. Requiring a Steam account to be 18+ years old just to skip a basic age check would be a pretty silly requirement, to say the least.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ben Lubar:

The age check screen is not used for anything that Valve has control over. It's only used for requirements from ratings agencies external to Steam's age rating / content survey / mature content preferences system.

Oprindeligt skrevet af datCookie:

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

That doesn't really make sense. Requiring a Steam account to be 18+ years old just to skip a basic age check would be a pretty silly requirement, to say the least.

Valve can't verify the identity of any account owner, even though their SSA states that users must be at least 13 years of age to have an account.

Therefore, the most logical thing to do would be to set a requirement that accounts must be 18 years old before something like this gets removed for that account.

They know it's an annoying thing, but it's out of their control and this is the only real way to do it.

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

Or else, keep the age check on by default and give users the ability to turn it off in the store preferences. That’s already supposed to be how it works, but it just doesn’t.

Oprindeligt skrevet af @Bloading:

The real issue here isn’t the check itself; it’s the lack of an opt-out for those of us who clearly don’t need it.