How to hide my years of service badge
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Only way to hide badges, is to keep your profile details friends-only/private. However that doesn't stop users from finding out how old an account is via other means.
Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:
Only way to hide badges, is to keep your profile details friends-only/private. However that doesn't stop users from finding out how old an account is via other means.

I believe people can look on steam db to see how old a account is, and how trusted it is. i do not use it myself though.
Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:
Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:
Only way to hide badges, is to keep your profile details friends-only/private. However that doesn't stop users from finding out how old an account is via other means.

I believe people can look on steam db to see how old a account is, and how trusted it is. i do not use it myself though.

If the account has been public at some point, many third party services like Steamdb do have data like creation date available since they scrape that from Steam all the time. You can also estimate the age of an account based on one of the Steam IDs.

SteamID Uses
Aside from the obvious elements of identifying (uniquely) an account, its type and the domain (universe) it belongs to, SteamIDs can be used to approximately determine when the user associated with the SteamID first created that Steam account. Lower values of 'Z' in the format described above (i.e. the account number) indicate an account made further in the past to one with a higher value. For example, a SteamID like STEAM_0:0:1234 would mean that the user signed up for their Steam account a long time before a user with a SteamID such as STEAM_0:0:12341111.

The value of X is 0 in Valve's GoldSrc and Source Orange Box Engine games (such as Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source), but newer Valve games (such as Left 4 Dead, Alien Swarm, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) have 1 as a value of X. The value of Y is either 0 or 1 and is part of the Account ID as described above. This bit is used to indicate which authentication server was used by that account.
Source for the above quote: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamID

Now if we take the OPs Steam ID as an example, they're STEAM_1:0:759396943. The next one STEAM_1:0:759396944 was made in February of 2023 and the previous one STEAM_1:0:759396942 was also made in February of 2023. Now then, if we take the above quote into consideration, we can assume that OP made their account in February of 2023 too.

Using the same method, mine is STEAM_1:0:57824, which is much shorter since I made mine in 2003 when Steam launched. STEAM_1:0:57823 does no longer exist, but STEAM_1:0:57825 on the other hand is another account that was made the same second I made mine.

This method works even if the account has never been public. Lookup services might not have any cached data on an account, but you can still estimate the age using the ID.
Last edited by Yasahi; 21 hours ago
Originally posted by Yasahi:
Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

I believe people can look on steam db to see how old a account is, and how trusted it is. i do not use it myself though.

If the account has been public at some point, many third party services like Steamdb do have data like creation date available since they scrape that from Steam all the time. You can also estimate the age of an account based on one of the Steam IDs.

SteamID Uses
Aside from the obvious elements of identifying (uniquely) an account, its type and the domain (universe) it belongs to, SteamIDs can be used to approximately determine when the user associated with the SteamID first created that Steam account. Lower values of 'Z' in the format described above (i.e. the account number) indicate an account made further in the past to one with a higher value. For example, a SteamID like STEAM_0:0:1234 would mean that the user signed up for their Steam account a long time before a user with a SteamID such as STEAM_0:0:12341111.

The value of X is 0 in Valve's GoldSrc and Source Orange Box Engine games (such as Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source), but newer Valve games (such as Left 4 Dead, Alien Swarm, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) have 1 as a value of X. The value of Y is either 0 or 1 and is part of the Account ID as described above. This bit is used to indicate which authentication server was used by that account.
Source for the above quote: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamID

Now if we take the OPs Steam ID as an example, they're STEAM_1:0:759396943. The next one STEAM_1:0:759396944 was made in February of 2023 and the previous one STEAM_1:0:759396942 was also made in February of 2023. Now then, if we take the above quote into consideration, we can assume that OP made their account in February of 2023 too.

Using the same method, mine is STEAM_1:0:57824, which is much shorter since I made mine in 2003 when Steam launched. STEAM_1:0:57823 does no longer exist, but STEAM_1:0:57825 on the other hand is another account that was made the same second I made mine.

This method works even if the account has never been public. Lookup services might not have any cached data on an account, but you can still estimate the age using the ID.
Damn….. mf leaked everything
probably talking about counter strike 2 service badges you get ingame XD but good job
Originally posted by Hello kitty:
Damn….. mf leaked everything

Hello Kitty.... I am appalled by your potty mouth. And why do you want to hide your years of service anyways?
Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:
Originally posted by Leonardo Da Pinchi:
Only way to hide badges, is to keep your profile details friends-only/private. However that doesn't stop users from finding out how old an account is via other means.

I believe people can look on steam db to see how old a account is, and how trusted it is. i do not use it myself though.

If an account has an account registered before it and an account registered after it that were registered on the same day, it's pretty easy to do the math and figure out the date when the account was registered even if it's private.
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