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It cheats you in through a back door, looking like an ad-covered kiosk. The main entrance is on the other side.
In stalls, there are two screens playing ads, sound coming from the one you're facing.
Toilet paper brands advertise on dispensers, all brands owned by the same conglomerate.
Softest toilet paper has printed portraits of the toilet company's political enemies.
Facial recognition measures usage, you pay at exit.
Exiting after 5 minutes is expensive, but a monthly plan is cheaper.
You've never been to a German rest stop, right? Most of the public toilets are managed by a company called Sanifair. You have to pay 70 Cents (used to be 50, might be 1 Euro now) for the Toilet and get a 50 Cent voucher you can use to pay for stuff at the rest-stop's or participating shops. Ads everywhere including digital ones at the urinals.
So they got everything except for themed toilet paper.
But they are usually clean. Toilet seats are automatically cleaned after every use and can be cleaned on demand by waving your hand in front of a button.
The only really bad thing about them is after they had conquered all of Germany they started raising the prices from what was in the beginning more or less free.
I don’t understand why you have to pay to use the toilet but healthcare and education are free. Seems like toilet should be, especially with its impacts on public health. I also felt the same about having to buy water everywhere in Germany. Just doesn’t seem logical