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The USB-C ecosystem is quite a mess. Most cables are either limited functionality, or not up to spec that they advertise. Frying your devices with nonstandard chargers or cables is easily possible.

You can't tell them apart visually, and you can't always trust the specs promised on Amazon either.

There are testing tools like https://www.tindie.com/products/aroerina2/usb-cable-checker/

There was a Google engineer (Bensen Leung) who bought, tested and reviewed all the cables he could find, but with the shutdown of Google+ the archive seems to be lost.




The spreadsheet you are probably referring to is still online: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9...



Bensen Leung is also the author of this blog post


Benson's medium post refers to a discovery by Tyler (aka scorpia)

Edit: original link: https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...


Benson Leung is the person who wrote the OP link....


Wait, what? I see "Tyler Ward", not "Benson Leung".

Unless you're telling me they are one and the same.


A HN moderator has just swapped the link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362538). When the above comment was written, the article this pointed to was still Benson Leung's.


Ah, ok. :)


> you can't always trust the specs promised on Amazon either.

didn't realize amazon is the arbiter of all knowledge hardware..




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