[yeldarb]

Sounds cool and all but two huge problems:

1) Copyright: completely re-serving the complete content of the top 100 sites with your own ads does not fall under fair use and would almost certainly be a magnet for lawsuits.

2) Distribution: how do you find your niche of people with poor internet connections and get them to use your mirror instead of whatever site it is they want to read?

[logicallee]

no clue on 2. for 1, you could have it be "opera mini/turbo as a service" so that you are arguing you are just shifting the viewer to the site, but it's still the user doing the viewing. it helps if you preserve any text ads on the site (or links, with alt-text, given you're probably not doing images. you could also replace images with a grainy black-and-white very low-fidelity version, this also shifts most ads on the original site, without adding hugely to your footprint.) To be honest I also thought perhaps javascript etc could be run, so that the heaviest sites of all are still downloaded and then turned into text versions. In many cases that can let someone browse a site that is otherwise incredibly slow.

This isn't legal advice, just the approach I would use off of the top of my head. I agree with you that it's hard. with the framework "opera minifier/turbofier as a service" it could work, though. Like a remote browser. (in a VM). Like, present it as "lynx as a service." (Lynx being an old terminal-based text browser.) Something like that, anyway.