You are browsing and clicking much faster than is typical of a human being
   Something is preventing Javascript from working on your computer
   There is a bot with the same IP address as you

The Atlantic.com site says: as below, this was not the case in the past. Similarly with the NY Times I did not have this problem before I went on vacation on 10 June. Neither tech support can help. This problem does not occur if I use EDGE '''Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.''' For the NY Times site, I get the following for some but not all articlesarticles You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot. Why am I seeing this? There are a few possibilities: You are browsing and clicking much faster than is typical of a human being Something is preventing Javascript from working on your computer There is a bot with the same IP address as you