Things are getting dystopian: you’re in a Chinese public restroom, nature calling urgently, but the toilet paper dispenser won’t budge until you scan a QR code and watch a 30-second ad on your phone.

Do you plan on stealing some toilet paper from public restrooms on your next trip to Beijing? Not so fast: some now have facial-recognition technology that limits toilet-goers to about 2 feet of ...

[Handy Geng] lives in Baoding, China, where average winter temperatures can get as low as −7.7 °C (18.1 °F). Rather than simply freezing in the cold when using the bathroom, he decided he could do ...

A video of a bizarre new bathroom rule in China, that you can't get toilet paper in some public restrooms without first watching an ad, has gone viral on social media. The video, which was shared by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This feels like the endpoint of our ad-supported everything culture—the same logic that gives you “free” social media in exchange ...