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Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads

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Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Quilotoa@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/25/public-restrooms-in-osaka-to-get-in-stall-video-screens-with-ads/

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it still illegal to have cameras in the bathroom? Because hammers and spray paint are cheap and easily concealable.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And there is a market for cheap monitors.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The paper is already there, the glue will arrive soon…

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a bathroom, you can produce your own glue.

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      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the one I meant.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    be a shame if people constantly smeared shit on the screen.

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    • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think that’ll happen in Japan.

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      • SwifferWetjet@thelemmy.club ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nobody from there for sure. Peak tourism season though?😬

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      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just hang some toilet paper over it

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      • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You have never seen Japanese porn in this case…

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These will be destroyed in microseconds, and rightfully so.

    Toilet stalls are one of the most frequently vandalised things.

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    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Japan, though? In the states, oh they’re already destroyed. But Japan?

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      • BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Do you think crime, hooliganism, or protesting doesn’t exist in Japan?

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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  • ericheese@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look if I see a screen in a bathroom I’m NOT trusting that there isn’t also a camera

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    • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And if there’s not a camera, that screen was broke when I got here.

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      • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If there’s a camera in the bathroom then you definitely have a home run lawsuit, at least in America.

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  • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The computers in the restroom are literally free, you can just take them. It’s a free computer with a screen!

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  • Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, put screens in a restroom where I can put a knife through them while shitting and nobody is gonna know.

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    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been finding more restaurants restrooms have TV screens but usually they are playing cartoons or somehow NickAtNite reruns which I had no idea still existed.

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      • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        For sports bars with event nights it is kind if useful, so you don’t feel like you’ve missed the entertainment. I’ve only seen TVs like that on the waiting area of a casino bathroom once though.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        returns to the table after an hour

        “Sorry, hat to finish some episodes”

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    • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was like that when I got here. Also that crunching noise you heard and sparks you saw were a typical poop for me.

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  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If only there was something regularly produced in toilet stalls to use for giving feedback…

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  • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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…

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    • setsubyou@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If we could get public restrooms like the ones in Japan just for watching a few ads, I’d be all for it…

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  • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • graycube@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Before that people used to write phone numbers on the stall walls advertising things.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How I met my wife.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t think the videos would turn out. They’d be overexposed.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      at least that wont be a pile of e waste in a few years.

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  • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oops the screen got smashed in, I wonder how that happened?

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone is quick to judge but no one has asked themselves is this is for the sexy ads. This could make things a lot easier.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ads to go along with some entertainment while I poop, right? Right?

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll take the ads but only because the next step up this escalation ladder is adding cameras and almost nobody wants that.

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    • sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well now you’re gonna have ads + cams to track if you’re watching

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