Still most of the noise that gets on the power and ground lines of USB cables come from the data lines - the 3.Optical cables sidestep this problem. The copper wires are also quite thin so they attenuate the power noise and ground noise (if there’s any other path with better conductors between the source and destination the majority of current will run in that.) They aren’t perfect but they are better than many alternatives with higher price tags.
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