Seen at a cinema. You can watch yourself poop and the ads switch between being shown normally and mirrored to make sure you can read them while on the toilet.

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    12 days ago

    Oh yeah I’m breaking anything like that in a bathroom. And you should too.

    Any digital device could come with a camera and microphones.

    And best of all, there’s no evidence of you breaking it without the owners admitting to filming/recording in a bathroom.

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    11 days ago

    I think, after all this time, we have found the platonic ideal of A Boring Dystopia post. It does not get any better/worse than this

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      11 days ago

      If there’s a camera pointing at the entrance of the toilets, they could use the recorded footage along with the time that the screen lost its network connection to narrow down the suspects. Especially since, unless you’re confident you can do something to this thing silently, you’d want to do it when nobody is around.

      …I guess you could also blow raspberries to drown out the sound. You might get some sympathetic looks when you leave the stall, though.

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          9 days ago

          The weirdly large blank space at the bottom does suggest the computer is there and not, say, underneath the display, so that would make it easy to avoid. Could still be booby-trapped, though. A light-beam getting interrupted or light sensor detecting that there is more light entering the enclosure than there should be could send a message home and then they would still have the time information.

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    12 days ago

    Businesses have enough trouble keeping people from vandalizing their toilets. I can’t see this making it less likely or less expensive for them to repair.

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    12 days ago

    I genuinely have to ask who this works on.

    How many people walk into a restroom to take a big shit, discover they are trapped in a tiny room with a big ad machine, and decide “This is where I will be spending my money once I’m done dropping a fat turd”.

    More effective than any individual ad, I think a quarter feed that says “Turn off ads: $.50” would be more profitable long term.

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      12 days ago

      Ads work. This has been proven many, many times, and it’s the reason why companies spend billions on ads. It’s not something that happens right then and there, but they get everyone. You are not safe from ads, even if you think you’re better than others. “Who does this work on?” is the wrong question. We should rather ask “How can we make it stop?”.

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      12 days ago

      The screen could literally be playing the movie based on your ticket so you miss less scenes if you had to go to a toilet and they waste the screen on this.