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Originally Posted By: drakino
Did that Google engineer ever resume his testing of cables as a personal project when a bad cable fried his laptop
Originally Posted By: DWallach
Yup, he's still doing this in an unofficial/official capacity. Amusingly, his Amazon reviews are uniformly positive, except in cases when he gets tons of downvotes, which I pointed out to a buddy of mine at Amazon. His reviews have apparently become a nice lightning rod for shady vendors' shadier practices.

I've suggested to my Amazon buddies that they should police the market themselves. No response on that yet.

The Verge reports Amazon has now acted by adding non compliant USB-C cables to it's list of prohibited items.

The work Benson Leung has been doing is now also captured in two sites. One for US shoppers here, and one for UK shoppers here.