Steam is sending key activation confirmation emails

At least since March 2020. That's the oldest mail I've found. Probably way longer than that since that's also when I started buying games again after a very long pause.

well I only started receiving them this month. No confirmation emails when I activate games before.

I am also getting them since a month or so, it's new and annoying.

The earliest i got is from September 2017 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Im sure I have received these for years, :)

I always got this. When I first made my steam account, I went kinda crazy with playing feudalife challenge & got like half of my library from free keys from indiegala.
Are you used to buying games directly from store? Or maybe there is an option to send mails or not.

I've been receiving those for a couple years.

i don't remember ever getting such e-mails

The oldest mail I found is from 13.01.2018.

Edit: oldest mail for a client activation is from 16.6.2023.

It's been a thing for a few years for key activations in browser. And it's also been a thing for Client activations since the update.

Couldn´t tell you ever since when I get them, feels closer to a couple of years than months tho..
(also EU/Austria)
Used to throw the first ones in the bin till don´t remember who informed me not to!
Apparently it´s actually paramount to keep them as they are your only proof linking the product to your account for everything not directly purchased on Steam. So no nuisance although a lttle 'spammy', but what can you do.. : )

I didn't read the entirety of the thread, but I've been getting those mails for ages when activating on web, not on client. I didn't activate any keys in the client in ages, so I don't know how it goes now.

I'm confused - I have never NOT received an email from Steam when activating a game on my account -- and I have like 2000 games - Is this thread related to something else?

I had always received those by email, since I've been using Steam, so... like 5 years or more, at least. I always receive one when I activate a Steam code.

Searching back in my email. I have them going back to at least 2017.
The above comments about browser vs client make sense. I always activate via browser.

Nothing new, really. Oldest of such Emails I still have is from September 5th, 2018. So they are doing this for at least five years now.

Edit: And here is why => https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/2xh1r/steam-is-sending-key-activation-confirmation-emails#k6xmEqM

I only activate games through the client and never received an email until they just did the last major client update in June. Now I get them with every activation no matter how it is activated. It would be nice if there was a way to disable it because it's just an extra pointless step to delete the email every time, especially if you are activating bunch of games from a bundle.

Region Europe:
I do not know when they have started this, my all mails from Steam goes directly to Steam-folder, i'll never check that.
Untill now, I have about 4400+ unread posts there. Yes I see, there is a post for every game I have registered to steam.
That is good place for those to be! :)

I have been getting those for years whenever I activated a key through the browser, which is most times for me, and recently also when activating keys on the client.