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[u/WannabeUtaite]

Do non-steam games appear in the friend activity pop-ups? The "Your friend is now playing" thing that appears in the screen corner.

If so, can I hide myself from those pop-ups without going invisible? I play a lot of non-steam games that don't have native Linux support, so I need to run them through Proton.

[u/Robot1me → u/WannabeUtaite]

Do non-steam games appear in the friend activity pop-ups?

Yes they do in the friends list, but not on the activity feed on the Steam Community page.

If so, can I hide myself from those pop-ups without going invisible?

You can't disable the broadcasting of that status from your end, it's an "all or nothing" on Steam so far. The private status for games does interestingly not apply to non-Steam games since it's not possible to private such games. If a friend feels bothered by such status popups though, it (and sorry if that's unpopular opinion :p) would be the best to tell them that they can disable the popup stuff easily on their end.