Is this a bad thing?

Thanks, been getting cables from ugreen before but the new price is just a couple dollars cheaper than apple original cables.

Totally agree with your concerns about the usb charging bricks. I only use genuine ones there. I did some further testing with original apple usb-c to lighning cables. Both 18W and 20W managed the same charging speed of around 1500-1600mA in my short test. Maybe I’m fine with only charging older model iPhone?

Tested the data transfer speed today. Both cables managed around 240Mbit. What I didn’t expect was the original apple usb-c to lightning cable. The thunderbolt port on my windows notbook managed only 160Mbit.

Found the same article next to the reddit one. That’s why I tested the claim of no data transfer and it seems to be wrong in my case? My data transfer seems to work no matter the orientation I plug the cable into my phone.

Just checked and it does transfer data no matter the orientation of the cable.

I guess you are behind a CGNAT that’s why you want to connect to your VPN using the protonvpn connection instead of your normal ISP?