I was blocked by Facebook after 2 searches. So much for transparency.

Out of curiosity do you use a VPN? I get issues like this a lot when browsing via VPN

Was there any feedback on the reason or mechanism for blocking?

I got blocked too. Got the following message:

  Blocked from Searching or Viewing the Ad Archive

  You have been temporarily blocked from searching or viewing the Ad Archive due to too many requests. Please try again later.

Is it really an "archive" if you can't download the contents at a reasonable rate? (Eg: I wouldn't expect gigabit speeds, but if you're willing to go slow and steady a 500k/1meg a second that should be doable)

That would enforce actual transparency. We can't allow that to happen! Here's how it works: You tells us who you are and what you're looking for, then we'll see what we can show you and what we can't.

same, what gives?

Thanks for taking a look! I do like both those indices. As the Big Mac Index looks at inter-country comparisons and I'm looking at intra-country (US). That said, I'm going to see if:

a) it's possible to get pricing data on Big Macs city by city in the US b) do the prices change with any frequency?

WRT b) I am very fascinated by the fact that grocery prices are changing daily within the same major super market within the same city. I can't really understand why and that isn't inflation, that's just pricing. Pricing based on .... ?

Yeah the headline caught me but the article disappointed. I don't think there is any honor in being homeless and stealing from others. Had he been self-sufficient that would have been interesting to me; however if you've read Into the Wild you know how that ends.

All humans (all animals really) take from nature. This human just takes from other humans as well.