Thst article has been taken down, i found it here

https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/17/dystopian-toilets-wont-give-loo-roll-unless-watch-advert-first-24189061/

i suspect because its shit journalism and a nothingburger, another look what i saw on instagram, i am a reporter

the article alos suggests this is to stop people taking the piss so to speak with how much they take and use generally

so while i don't agree, yes i can imagine this, toilets need up keep, this is a way to manage it, there are plenty of places were you must pay to use a toilet, and there are plenty of out of order free toilets

Please wipe a verification ass.

Effing capitalists Lmao

Is that anything like an egg roll?

When will people learn that any advertising that occurs during extortion like this is the focal point of hate and fear?

This is like anti-advertising.

Sounds like a job for looBlock Origin or a PeeHole.

This is an improvement. A lot just don't have any paper at all because they are afraid people will steal it and bring it home

Funny, everyone perceives China to be some socialist giant. I just spent a week there and it's more capitalist and consumer centric than anything I've ever seen. Certainly more than Singapore, USA, UK. All the brands x all the shopping. It's not a tourist spot, it's a shopping experience.

Wouldn't people use tissues and cause pipe blockage in the long run?

Very socialism much Marx wow

You've always paid for TP in China. At least now there's a way to get it for free. I see this as an improvement.

Tell ya what. You're about to get half of my handkerchief and we'll call it even.

I have declared war on all toilet based advertising

If only we had something shitty and easily spreadable at hand that could be applied to the screen on order to inconvenience the operator of the extortion device.

Good thing I always have my multi-tool with me.

It's been a while since I've been to China. But even in the 2000s it was not uncommon to have to pay for toilet paper at a vending machine. Not at all public facilities but the more local you went, the fewer tourists would be there, the more this happens. So getting roll for watching an ad is an improvement.

And as the article points out, they cannot have nice things, i.e. free sandpaper toilet roll, because people will just steal it. I feel like this becomes exponentially less dystopian when you frame it as you can either have no paper at all or watch the ad/pay for it.

And there is another cultural difference. The Chinese are more like the Romans when it comes to these bodily functions. Much more willing to take care of it communally or at a hole in the ground surrounded by a thigh high "modesty" barrier. So asking an attendant for extra roll is something that the majority of Chinese would have less of a problem with, I think.

So late stage communism is the same as late stage capitalism. Toilet paper for me but not for thee.

I would start the ad, fish my shit out of the toilet, and smear it across the screen so I wouldn't have to watch it.

And you need a phone to view them. It would be quite shitty if you don't have one, or the battery just decided to die on you.

Coming to you from the country where HOAs are funded by ad monitors installed in almost every elevator in commercial/residential high-rises, and public restrooms (even in the hospital!) never stock toilet paper because "people will steal it" (not joking)? Color me surprised...

The solution to putting ads in bathrooms is that they can be easily defaced.

Unless China is crazy enough to record their people in the bathroom, which I wouldn't put past them.

, haha, soon to come: 'ADS FOR DEATH AND TAXES.'

Western propaganda