This is a development kit, so the transmitted signals / pinout could have nothing in common with regular usb-c and they just needed more lanes than one usb-c cable can provide, leading them to develop this monstrosity.

Similar to the PCIe extenders that use USB3 male to male or HDMI as their connector / cable.

In other news, there are also efforts from a lot of chinese companies to establish the GPMI connector, aka. wide boi usb-c.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 lineup was wild:

This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/

• logout from google / clear cookies.
• switch to a new “google” container and login to see your subscrpitions
• if a video doesn’t load switch to decontained

also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites