Steam – way to automatically block level-zero Steam profiles

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Lately, I've been doing a lot of trading on sites like TF2Outpost and backpack.tf, and, within about a minute of bumping my trade, I receive at least 3 friend requests from level-zero private Steam profiles (which is usually indicative of a scammer/phisher). Sometimes, seemingly at random, I'm bombarded with these requests from level-zero bots.

Is there any feature on Steam that automatically declines these friend requests by these scammers (or, better yet, blocks them), as I'm sick and tired of blocking bot after bot?

I've checked the settings in Steam, and gone through all the different tabs to try and find such a feature, but I can't find anything.

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Google chrome extension called "steam inventory helper" which can auto decline friend invites under certain levels, you can decide in the settings, I always have it set to auto decline levels 1 and under

There is no generic setting in Steam that prevents updates

There is no generic setting within Steam that prevents game updates from automatically being downloaded. The only way to prevent auto-updating is to run Steam in offline mode - which will prevent you from playing Steam games online.

It is not possible to prevent Steam client updates from being downloaded while the client is in 'Offline' mode.

There is a per game setting, though...

There is a per-game setting which allows you to disable updates for individual games, which is accessible by right clicking on a game in your library, and selecting properties and choosing "Do not automatically update this game":

Individual game settings

It is worth noting that if you're playing a game on Steam, all Steam downloads are automatically paused unless you select the download option "Allow Downloads During Gameplay" (which is available through the Steam menu > Settings > Downloads category, at the bottom), so you shouldn't experience Steam downloading files while playing Steam games. Note that this setting will not prevent Steam from downloading updates when you're playing a non-Steam game.

Now there is a generic Downloads Restriction setting, too!

Under Steam > Settings > Downloads, there is now an option available that allows you to specify a specific time frame to download updates. If you know you're going to be using mobile data for a specific time frame, you could use this functionality as a workaround to ensure that updates are not downloaded during that specific time frame:

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Steam – How to start Steam without it automatically logging in

IF you want to stop Steam from automagically logging you in, edit

\Steam\config\SteamAppData.vdf

and delete everything that is in there.

This will make Steam ask you for your username and password on the next launch.

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