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Amazon has added shoddy and non-standards-compliant USB Type-C cables and adapters to its list of restricted products. This means that third-party marketplace sellers can no longer sell USB Type-C products that aren't compliant with the relevant USB standards that they purport to support.
The crackdown is almost certainly in response to the glut of cheap USB Type-C cables that have flooded Amazon over the past year, and at least one example of a dodgy cable frying a Google engineer's Chromebook Pixel. In that case, the third-party seller stated that it was a standards-compliant USB 3.1 Type-C cable with SuperSpeed; as it turned out, the cable was completely missing the extra wires needed for SuperSpeed, and two of the other wires had been transposed. The miswired cable killed his laptop instantly.
Back in December, Amazon banned the sale of self-balancing scooters following a spate of reports of cheap hoverboards bursting into flames.
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