Bypass or shorten the trade ban – is that possible?

Sometimes there is a trade ban for your own account on Steam. Then you can temporarily no longer trade on the community market. Can I bypass or disable the trade ban?

For example, the trade ban is activated when you log in to the Steam account on an unknown device. This is to prevent fraudsters with stolen login data from being able to plunder other people’s accounts. For a long time there was a trick that could be used to bypass or shorten the trade ban. However, this is currently no longer possible.

Steam trade ban to prevent unauthorized access

With the Steam Guard, Steam has a built-in system that protects the Steam account against unauthorized access. If you log into Steam with a new browser or start the Steam client on a different computer than usual, the protective mechanism will take effect. To regain full access to Steam, you must a confirmation code enter, which will be sent to you by email.

The Steam trade ban is also linked to the previously unknown login. This mechanism is intended to prevent unauthorized persons from trading with your Steam account. If you switch to a new computer, the lock will take effect and you will not be able to trade items, trading cards and other objects for 7 days. This also applies if you have bought new items on a known device. These can also not change hands again for 7 days. It is not intended to circumvent or shorten this trading block.

Bypass the Steam Trade Block: Here’s how it used to work

There used to be some loopholes that could be used to override the lock. Steam has readjusted here and fixed the vulnerabilities.

The Steam Trade Block is particularly annoying because sometimes it just activates accidentally, for example if you’ve factory reset the operating system and Steam then identifies the machine as a new computer. If you are still logged into the Steam account on other devices, for example in the Steam app on your smartphone, you can trade there instead. To prevent the lock from being activated accidentally, for example by deleting browser cookies, you should set up Steam’s “Mobile Authenticator”. You might get lucky and one of the old methods will still work. Try the following to bypass the trade ban:

1. Starts the Steam client and look for an offer that you want to accept.
2. copies you out the link.
3. opens Steam in your browser and paste the link you copied earlier.

You may then be able to complete the trade as usual since the trade block in the browser does not apply. Note: This trick only works if the Steam trade ban is enabled in the Steam client. Alternatively, you can also start Steam in “Big Picture Mode” and try to complete the trade here. Here, too, there was temporarily no trade ban.

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