How can you even create accounts on most websites without an email address, including on Facebook? I think the intent is to generate revenue from Facebook ads

How can you even create accounts on most websites without an email address, including on Facebook? I think the intent is to generate revenue from Facebook ads while getting good press from developing countries. Still, I'm glad it generated a backlash. Enforcing a data cap for free accounts would definitely make more sense. Internet is the whole shebang, not just a limb.