Shouldn&#x27;t a service like this use a small whitelist of sites that it provides for free (Google maps, Wikipedia, ...) and use https throughout rather than not at all? I completely understand if some services are easier to provide for free, e.g. static&#x2F;cachable content that can be cached close to the users.<p>Also if I were Facebook I&#x27;d remove any and all Facebook services, just to prove I&#x27;m being altruistic and not trying to lock in third world users to my ads...<p>Really if fb can&#x27;t do this then some nonprofit should.<p>This looks a lot like when the US got internet access, with AoL trying to be a quasi-internet within internet. I suppose you can argue &quot;it worked&quot; because it connected lots of households and now they have proper Internet, but the European model where governments subsidized massive backbones and municipalities created last-mile networks making &quot;proper&quot; internet available straight away looks more attractive in retrospect. Realistically, poor countries will have to follow the US model...