The computers in the restroom are literally free, you can just take them. It's a free computer with a screen!
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Look if I see a screen in a bathroom I'm NOT trusting that there isn't also a camera
And if there's not a camera, that screen was broke when I got here.
Oops the screen got smashed in, I wonder how that happened?
Saw this in a bar once. You could see the SD card storing ads hidden in a vent. People mistook it for a camera and got the place full of police officers. Not a good move
be a shame if people constantly smeared shit on the screen.
I don't think that'll happen in Japan.
Nobody from there for sure. Peak tourism season though?😬
You have never seen Japanese porn in this case....
Just hang some toilet paper over it
is there TP in Japan?
These will be destroyed in microseconds, and rightfully so.
Toilet stalls are one of the most frequently vandalised things.
In Japan, though? In the states, oh they're already destroyed. But Japan?
Do you think crime, hooliganism, or protesting doesn't exist in Japan?
You see their username, right? The most weaboo of weaboo shit? Of course they have completely misguided opinions on their anime paradise.
Japan is a paradise, don't you watch anime?
Look, if the revenue goes straight into maintaining the restroom and keep it from looking like, well, a public restroom I honestly don't mind.
Something tells me that's just wishful thinking, though...
Pretty sure I saw advertisements on screens in bathrooms in American nightclubs and bars over twenty years ago. I think they didn't have one per cubicle, though.
If only there was something regularly produced in toilet stalls to use for giving feedback.......
Places have been doing this for years but not with screens. Just like a bulletin board with ads. Even on your table.
Places like that, you don’t go back to unless you have to. In laws couldn’t understand why I didn’t like their favorite pizza place.
Before that people used to write phone numbers on the stall walls advertising things.
The difference is most ad systems with screens also have a camera built in to the hardware, because they’re just repackaged tablets.
If I want faceless companies to watch me shit I’d buy meta glasses, but I really really do not want that.
I don't think the videos would turn out. They'd be overexposed.
and now it'll be pile of e waste in a few years. that's progress.
I'll take the ads but only because the next step up this escalation ladder is adding cameras and almost nobody wants that.
Well now you’re gonna have ads + cams to track if you’re watching