r/Steam_Link • u/Prestigious_Wolf897 • 17d ago

Security concerns

Concerning Steamlink.. my son lives primarily with his father but will be with me most of the summer. He has a steam account on the computer that is at my house and now he wants to play at his dad's. They want to use his dad's chromebook which I guess will not download steam but can download the steamlink. They kept discussing around me that he was going to bring the chromebook over to link it. I said absolutely not..I am not having his dad's chromebook linked to my computer. Am I wrong? I think this is very much a privacy issue.?

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u/KeyboardSlappr 17d ago

I would suggest buying your son a better laptop and just letting him log into steam on his new computer

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u/Prestigious_Wolf897 17d ago

That sounds like the simple fix. I wish it was that easy

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u/Prestigious_Wolf897 17d ago

My ex insists that it works like any other account and he would just be logging into steam and only able to log into steam

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u/KeyboardSlappr 17d ago

No if you have another computer connected to your computer you most definitely can control the host computer. I’m doing it right now so I can stream movies I have downloaded on my pc to my TV in the other room. If you are suspicious he may try some thing nefarious I definitely would not cave.