From what I read, they collected privacy data already, they just were doing it on selected sites, now they went into full Big Brother mode.
Also, apparently new permissions' settings are working in such way they will never have to ask for any new permission, no matter what they'll change.
All in all, I'll wait for some more confirmations how bad exactly it is, but looks like "he's dead, Jim".
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This is correct. The previous version allowed access to some sites. The new version is carte blanche access.
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All urls, all data, session IDs,. passwords in the url, any porn or political or facebook page you visit, all gets gathered and sent back to a remote server.
Absolutely unacceptable - I recommend getting rid of it right away and telling your friends to do the same.
1 star it, uninstall and report to google.
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Has that had anyone go through it with a fine-tooth comb? I don't wanna dodge one bullet by stepping into the path of another.
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Just went (coarsly) through it.
Havn't checked the included scripts, and the second half only very coarsly, but looks fine.
Since it's open source, someone would have noticed already anyways. ;->
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Yep, been using this one since SIH was sold, and it works well.
I actually prefer it to SIH now.
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Thanks for the tip. Kind of liked it better then SIH :)
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I briefly tested this just now and I'm not impressed. 3/4 of "sell selected items" failed and the one which went through was listed at such a price that it will never ne sold.
This sucks...
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Not sure why it would fail, but have you tried changing the settings for minimum/maximum prices so that the prices it lists at will actually sell? You'll probably have to change those values if you haven't already.
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Oh, didn't see the options. That explains the higher than expected price.
The errors are:
not added to market because there was a problem listing your item. Refresh the page and try again.
I often get "You cannot sell any items until your previous action completes" when selling items, don't know why. Could be the same thing triggerint the error with this script. SIH was able to re-try as long asit was needed for the item to go through, which was very useful.
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Didn't like that it doesn't let you choose the price when selling multiple items, I select the items and choose sell selected items and then they get added automatically without asking at what price you want to sell them or at least I couldn't find a way to do that.
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You can specify rules in the settings. Like
Sell always as cheapest offer, sell as history price (average last 24h), etc. and specify and offset (make it always 0.01 cheaper/more expensive) and so on.
Further you can write your own infinetly complicated rule (or confirmation popup) inside the script.
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Wow, that script is quite terrible
- It
removes the part of the inventory pagewhere you can see the item in the community market(and deletes the Badge progress, Quick sell and instant sell buttons from Enhanced Steam) but adds a bunch of useless buttons with various prices that I would never use. - It makes the inventory page super sluggish
- Trying to sell multiple items, it ended up selecting and listing a card that was not even on screen. (I wouldn't dare try the "Turn selected items to gem" since I have no idea what I will lose)
- It lists the name of every item in the trade inside the trade window. It's super annoying for large trades (with 80+ items)
- You can barely configure anything
The ony part that's somewhat usable is the market listing although it adds a bunch ot stuff into the price box that doesn't fit in there so you can't actually read it.
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Yeah, super slow so it's unusable for me. The labels on the buttons are also scary. Are there confirmations if I accidentally click them? The sell selected items button didn't have a confirmation...
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Well that scripts don't always work well together is a know problem of userscripts.
Just only turn the one on, which you want to use right now.
For me it only lags at the first load and when selecting/deselecting many items
You can select multiple with strg or shift (same behavior as in SIH). You do not see the selection that clearly, but you do. Never had Problems with that.
The list is pretty useful with steam deciding to drop random erros once in a while (only latly but independently of addons/scripts).
You can configure EVERYTHING.
It's a userscript. You can literally change everything you want. I added a sophisticated pricecalculating algorithm, that takes into account history price, current offers, average sold per dayand worth (lowest offer) to calculate a price I would choose manually taking into account selling fast, but not to cheap. Thats way more comfortable than SIH, where I just had lowest offer to work with.
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added a sophisticated pricecalculating algorithm,
would you release that?
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hm... it's kinda "handcrafted" for how I want to sell cards, not sure, if anyone can make use of it.
I did not had it as a fork before and there was a new version. So I just copied my changes and tried it out for a few cards (with the new version). Seems to work fine.
Used the modified old version for a lot of cards without problems.
https://github.com/KlappPc/Steam-Economy-Enhancer
You can look at the diff of my commit to see what has changed.
Basically I look at the last 4 days (sold history) and then decide if I need to go lower or can go for the same or even higher than the current lowest offer.
If you know a bit about javascript feel free to look through. Otherwise (if you have mobile) just let a few cards beeing listed and then compare offers, history (not last 24, but 96h) and listed price to get a feeling what it does.
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interesting thx, was looking for something like that, will check it out though my js is rather mediocre ^^
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Well ist pretty basic stuff.
it's mostly if-conditions. But you should know the overall syntax to follow variables and stuff.
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Oh, and if you want to sell slower but higher, modify the ratio limits in the conditions ^^.
Cards that would need to be sold for 0.03 (i.e. way more offers for 0.03 than what will be sold in 4 days) will NOT be listed at all.
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Well that scripts don't always work well together is a know problem of userscripts.
That's why it's important to be able to disable parts of the script that you don't want, especially since there are many times where I need parts of both scripts active at once.
It's a userscript. You can literally change everything you want.
Of course I could dig in the source code and turn that script into a useful one, but right now I'm lacking the time and as-is it's not configurable. It was much quicker to crack SIH open and remove the abusive permissions and tracking for now.
I might try to customize it at some point, but for now it's almost useless for my needs.
- In software development, a feature that can't be disabled should be considered a bug.
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i just installed it, and honestly - it seems way better than SIH. thanks for the hint!
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I am not home currently, so I really can't tell you. Will be back in a few days, though.
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Not a problem. Will wait. For now i dont use it (for me it does not work as it should - for sure does not work this labels on card with price - not sure if other things works as it should, but partialt it is still working, but on very start it worked with labels too).
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I notice Economy Enhancer doesn't pop up prices on the incoming trade offer window. Is that a feature that can be turned on so I can see the value of the items in trade offers I receive?
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Hi, sorry for asking lont time after this post. But i have problem with this script. After i changed something in the setting scripts stop working. It worked on start in Firefox, then i change option and it stoped. Then i installed it on Chrome and it worked until I changed something. The worse part is that after it stop working I can not make it work again even afterreinstalling scripts and Tampamonkey... Nothing helps ;/
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You mean the plug-in bought and now maintained by a Russian CS:GO trading/gambling site is now collecting every available privacy data from its users?
I am shocked.
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It seems the devs are backing out and reverting to the previous state.
I think the harm is done nonetheless.
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It looks like they deleted their announcement of the rollback...and furthermore...the extension has in fact not rolled back to the previous version as of now.
Avoid, IMO.
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The previous state still allowed them access to some websites, it just wasn't carte blanche. Neither is really worthwhile.
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Steam Economy Enhancer is by far the best alternative out there right now, thanks to spodamayn for recommending it out here. Thanks OP for the thread, already uninstalled that extension. I doubt anyone will use the extension now. knowing the changes ofcourse.
Edit - looks like they posted an apology : https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamInventoryHelper#announcements/detail/2694698722703789085
but i still wouldn't trust them after what they did ofcourse.
edit - this is what they posted that was removed after https://archive.is/vYC3h
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It's totally useless for trade offers tho, missing the numbers to add X items or Y of each to trade.
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I notice Economy Enhancer doesn't pop up prices on the incoming trade offer window. Is that a feature that can be turned on so I can see the value of the items in trade offers I receive?
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Unfortunately not, it does lack some features that we use most. I talked to the dev and he isn't planning to add all those features anytime soon.
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That's too bad. Happen to have any alternatives for that?
I also notice I no longer see price history via IsThereAnyDeal on store pages. I'd love to have that feature back too.
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I use enhanced steam for all the pricing history and region comparison.
Also if you want those features, you gotta wait till someone comes up with an extension that packs up with all those or you can use an older version of SIH, there's a guide on reddit how to do it.
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Saw this when the update prompted and was like NO WAY.
Time to change
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Huge fan of steam inventory helper. However, asking permission to monitor every site you visit (even out of steamcommunity.com) goes too far. Uninstalled. Recommend everyone else to do the same.
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Holy mackarony. I didn't think it collects so much... And I've just recently visited many of my Humble Bundle links with games... Now I wonder if I did it before or after accepting the update.
I've just disabled and removed the extension from my Chrome.
Now I won't be able to live my Steam life without this extension! :(
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They updated it today... and it seems to still be requesting the same abusive permissions. Oh well, time to move on.
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Is there any working alternative to make trade offers great again?
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Except it's useless for that, only thing it has is "Add all from this page" while SIH/E had "Add X items total with max Y of each item" so you could add first 100 cards or 2 sets each for 10 games at a time etc.
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I guess I just never used trades that way. My concern was the price of each item
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I just tried the newest version and followed the manual to remove the problematic parts but apparently the spy code is gone. The 2 files doing that are missing.
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I was just trying to sell some items in the Steam Marketplace and noticed the Steam Inventory Helper was not disabled. I checked my active extensions and noticed by web browser disabled the application pending my decision on a recent permission update. Steam Inventory Helper now wants the ability to monitor and change my personal information on every site I visit. I did a quick search and found this thread explaining the basics about what the new permissions are doing.
Bottom line: it's probably in your best interest to stop using the plugin.
Does anyone have a recommended alternative that simplifies selling in bulk on Steam without the privacy-infringing permission requirements?
Update:
Several users have recommended Steam Economy Enhancer as an alternative.
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