I'll never understand butthurt people. If you were in charge of a massive company, you would do the SAME thing, if not even worse. Of course you'd want more money over the needs of insignificant little users who are still going to shut up after 2 days of whining and go with the flow. I'm not just talking about this particular incident, as it applies to every move of a major company nowadays.
The ONLY time you should complain about companies raking in money is when they go too far and do it EA style.

Bloody hypocritical bastards. :V

Then don't trade then.  It's a luxury run by Steam so it's their rules you have to abide by.  No one is telling you that you have to trade.  It's a benefit granted by them so it's their choice on whether they should inforce an extra bit of security.

Are you suggesting that those privacy settings dont actually do anything?

And i think what that guy writes is sensible; i do it whenever i install apps.
"That mp3 tagger wants to read/write my external and internal storage? Okay neccesary, wait, you want to see my contacts? Why? You dont need that, ill look for another mp3 tagger."

I choose who gets to see my data and how much of it.