Lies. They’re very reliable. You can rely on them to be wrong.

Exact same situation here, two 3rd gens.

We did the same type of research you did OP, and honestly you have three options:

• get a low cost ‘automatic rake’ box, which will break in a month if your pet has a bad day on the potty. Or worse, everything will get stuck to the rake and it’ll be worse to clean than scooping the box.

• you go with something proprietary like the crystal litter solutions.

• or you get an expensive box like the litter machine.

Its certainly unfortunate that there aren’t better options for cheaper, but I do think that it’s the right choice in most cases. I have 4 cats and 2 litter boxes, and I empty them about once a week with a deep clean every 3 months or so. We do have one non automated box because sometimes they prefer that, but overwhelmingly they prefer the litter machines.

Essentially the standard is saying that anything attempting to connect to the web must provide an attestation that it’s representing a human.

Mozilla opposes it because it’s another barrier for new tools to implement, and there is no evidence that bots wouldn’t just say ‘yeah, I’m a human!’

So no benefit, and more barriers