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Valve has always been pretty awful at granular privacy. For the longest time, no settings between "hide literally everything" and "broadcast to everyone I know every time I purchase or play anything."
Still no setting between those two options, but at least it's on a game-by-game basis now.
Also the fact that on the steam deck there is no choice to add a pin before purchases is mind boggling to me. Hand it to a kid and they could run up serious bills.
At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
As a matter of principle, I don't save my credit card number anywhere. It's a little more tedious when I make a purchase, but I've got my number memorized anyway, so it's not a big deal, and it's definitely more secure in that respect.
I think that's store driven. I recall having to input my PIN on my Deck multiple times, but there was at least a few days between each purchase.
I would prefer if it behaved like phone app stores. Have an option to ask for a pin right before completing a purchase.
It took me too long to realize you folks didn't mean pin as in pin the game to a dash board of something but a personal identification number for pin.
Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I'd say it's more often than not that it asks
I just put in a purchase and no, it did not ask me to re-enter the CCV.
Not every purchase, same if you use the PayPal option. At least not in my state in USA.
Seems pretty random when it asks or not
Also in several games my ability to join friends in-game broke if I turned my profile completely private. As soon as I set it to friends only I could join them again.