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SteamSpy operates by "polling" public Steam profiles. Using the Steam Web API provided by Valve, the service analyzes a random sample of users to extrapolate data for the entire platform. While not 100% accurate—Galyonkin himself notes that data for games with fewer than 30,000 sales can be suspect—it is often accurate within 10% for established titles. The 2018 "Privacy Apocalypse"

Steam Spy was born from an idea by Kyle Orland of Ars Technica, who suggested using the Steam Web API to poll public user profiles. steamspy

In April 2018, Valve (owner of Steam) changed its privacy policy. By default, all Steam user profiles were set to (users could no longer be automatically scraped). This change was made to comply with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in Europe. SteamSpy operates by "polling" public Steam profiles

: Beyond sales, it tracks "concurrent players," "playtime" (median and average), and geographical distribution of the player base. 2. The 2018 Privacy Crisis The 2018 "Privacy Apocalypse" Steam Spy was born