Useful?
I'm in the same situation, and agree it would be useful to ignore filters for wishlisted games and the search. Even more so now that Steam reports to devs the platform breakdown on wishlists, thus encouraging Linux users to wishlist non-Linux games. It's a dumb system, but hey, Valve.
The only alternative I have found on SG is to leave the OS filter to All, then use ESGST to do the filtering, as you can set defaults for the different views (Wishlist, Group, etc.). It works, but I find that quite slow.
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For searching I can suggest using archive: example. (The link to it can be found in the footer.)
It shows all giveaways, without filtering anything(owned, high level, etc), it shows even deleted and ended giveaways, but you can click "open" in the left column to search only for active ones.
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Both. Yes for searching (especially by name), but yeah, wishlist makes a lot of sense, too.
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Normally I browse only Linux giveaways (platform set in here) and for most cases it works great, however there are many games that actually have a Linux version even though it's not marked in the store, so SG doesn't detect them as Linux and thus doesn't show them. For that reason (and some others) I can think of two cases where visibility settings can do more harm than good and maybe could be disabled.
when browsing wishlist giveaways - if the game is on my wishlist, then I usually want it, no further filters needed.
when searching for a game - obviously I want to find specific game(s), so the filters can more often prevent it than help.
With regards to specific settings:
Of course it could be made so that just specific settings are disregarded (like only OS), or maybe even allow user to select which settings are forever and which can be ignored on wishlist / search, it's just a matter of finding the right way. I just wanted to know if others would find it as useful as I do.
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