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Gotta love troubleshooting your data connection before you realize you grabbed a power only cable.
Such things should not be allowed to exist.
No, there's a good reason for them to exist, but they should be marked as such.
What's the reason? A slightly cheaper cable where data isn't needed?
Eliminates a malicious threat vector. Gives you piece of mind to charge your devices without worry that what you connect to is going to interact with your device.
*Peace of mind
I’ll give you a piece of my mind.
Just kidding. Thanks for the correction
Your funny 🙂
You finally described a reason for these otherwise frustrating cables to exist! Though I like the other suggested method better, a charge-only adapter that you apply to the end of a full featured cable.
it's also safer when wanting to charge from untrusted chargers, though you can still get an adapter to block the data pins or just bring your own wall charger/battery when traveling
I think power only cables should exist because they are significantly cheaper, but they should have some kind of marking to differentiate them enforced by the standard
They are afaik not allowed to exist with USB C. And except for some very few very sketchy manufacturers, it's also luckily not a thing in practice.