Buying stuff is on a spectrum and I think a consumer should be able to chose a tightly regulated system for exchanging currency.
Most everything else should be free to choose.
The amount of effort that goes in to playing advertising metric games of YouTube is ridiculous to me. Anyone that says well people have to get paid I say maybe.
Real creators create and don't need the like, subscribe, patreon, mantra. Most of the gunsmithing sights on YouTube are moving towards this idea.
I don't believe in the discovery myth so many talk about as essential. It is only essential if you need inorganic growth.
I would say it's an emerging trend and that the more they tighten their grip the more creators will slip through their fingers.
The above is true only to the extent that you believe it. I don't believe it at all so I'm not part of the "you" I'm an "other".
The "News" is a whole other problem closer to truth. So not technical entirely. Individuals started newspapers and individual will deliver the news.
A big issue corporations currently face is that everything has become so cheap that their scale of effort is a hindrance.
If a corporation is not acting ruthlessly efficient the economy of scale breaks down quickly. The crux of this will cause the success of many smaller scale efforts that don't hold the overhead of a corporation.
The original promise of the public internet was the idea that broadcasting was dead and narrowcasting was the wave of the future. This was true up until ads became legal/common on the internet.
Take away the commercial interest and you are left with passionate publishers and audiences.
Financial transactions could become so streamlined that a "commerce fob" is likely to emerge. That would be a credit card with a screen and buttons.
Think about how streamlined all these tasks have become. Putting those in a single ROM that has a screen and is tied into some legitimate network will emerge.
It is only out of convenience that these services are currently tied to a "phone".
Reliable machinery always has a shop manual, diagrams and prints. Programming languages have tomes of documentation, computing infrastructure has man pages and volumes of commentary, scholarship and trouble shooting have been committed to characters.
Aside from the point and grunt visuals, solid presentations (viewed after the fact when the value of real time interaction is gone) work fine as text.
If you're dyslexic, I get it but TTS systems are extremely solid these days.
What is the point?