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 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.
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.