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>>xmrcat+(OP)
People should always consider the "abusive friend" scenario with regards to privacy.

Even marriages can be extremely abusive...

The assumption that people on your friend's lists, Steam or anywhere (even just people in the same household) should be able to see your personal information, such as computer use, is a bananas assumption. It is an assumption that I'm pleased to say has failed privacy reviews at at least one company larger than Steam.

>>explod+o3
I think it's a quite small demographic that have abusive friends on Steam that they can't simply unfriend for whatever reason, and it's not a reasonable expectation on Steam to design for that case. It'd be like a pencil company trying to prevent people from writing hurtful messages.

>>snowmo+M6
By that logic, we should remove all friend-level privacy settings entirely. I don't think that would go over well with most of the userbase.

>>ycombi+xb
No, that is obviously not logical. A feature can be nice-to-have for most people, while still not needing to be perfectly secure against all sorts of far-fetched scenarios.

If you want to guess how most of the userbase would react, just imagine how much the average user would care when you told them about this "vulnerability".