A user demonstrates an ad-supported toilet paper dispenser at a public toilet in China. - SCREENGRABS FROM WORLDINSIGHTCH/TWITTER
BEIJING: Some public toilets in China are now requiring users to do something slightly off – and off-putting – before they can get sheets of toilet paper: watch a 30-second advertisement.
Yes, toilet paper – once the most democratic of commodities, free and abundant in public toilets – is now behind a paywall of jingles and jingling coins.
