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For years I've loved Anker cables and hubs and such, but I have a whole lot more skepticism about them after the whole debacle with their security cameras doing sketchy things and them lying about it: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23486753/anker-eufy-secu...

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Agree. With so many unknown brands on Amazon they had become a go-to, but I plan to spend my pounds elsewhere. A tiny contribution to try to effect change.

I wish Blue Jean made usb3 cables. One of the few folks out there I trust not to rip me off on them.

There's always Digi-Key*/Mouser. Their target market is the sort of people who get pissed if things are not exactly as described, so they tend to get things right! The downside is that their cable prices are usually mediocre, and they do charge a separate shipping fee which can be high for single item orders (or is pretty reasonable for big orders shipped overnight early AM!).

(* Digi-Key Marketplace is not as trustworthy as regular Digi-Key and has pissed off a great number of their customers. Engineers buy from Digi-Key to have guaranteed parts from guaranteed vendors shipped with guaranteed delivery rates and dates in the same box as everything else in the order. Most vendors are of of course perfectly good -- there are some huge names on there -- but in general Digi-Key Marketplace does not do any of this. It cuts against the Digi-Key brand and has not been a net positive for Digi-Key, in my and many others' opinion. I know I'm ordering a lot more from Mouser recently, for this and other reasons.)

I also moved a lot of my ordering to Arrow and Mouser, primarily because I dislike the marketplace concept.

Some of the early Anker USB-C stuff pulled shenanigans with USB-C specs as well.

How so? Nothing comes up right away in google.

Something to do with incorrect implementation of the 56K pull-up resistor found by Benson Leung. That was a long time ago.

Oh, found it, this was the very weird cable that was keeping the voltage going when the device was unplugged.

https://www.androidauthority.com/anker-issues-recall-perilou...

Good response though and I'd generally buy their usb cables.

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