That’s not how computers work, but sure bro.

It’s not a hard requirement.

Yeah usually “innovation” comes with pandering to mobile users and microtransactions. So we’re good, thanks.

No USB cable has “gigabit speed”. It probably has 480 Mbps (USB 2.0 standard).

Maybe he meant a 5 Gbps Gen1 cable. That would be “gigabit speed” but still rather slow by today’s standards and won’t support DP. They are pretty cheap these days, so wouldn’t be suprising to see left over stocks being sold as charging cables.

That sounds like a dedicated charging cable. So yeah, they will (if at all) only transfer data slowly and not support any extras features like displayport.

You won’t find these symbols on most devices though (certainly not on any macbook as the picture suggests).

what ‘level of piracy’ is morally or ethically acceptable to you?

If I could, I would download a car.