I’m not running anything in the background that isn’t a built-in part of iPadOS - that is, nothing custom or special. Clearly I’m not reloading pages or logging in repeatedly either so it will be great to know what the logs say.

Looks like I’ve gotten locked out again between clicks of reading one new post to the next.

You are registered as BAD_IP by Protector.
This restriction will be expired on 2022-10-29 19:36:16

Still can’t get rid of the checkboxes in Firefox on my iPad and don’t really want to clear the cache so will see if they disappear in time. On dynamic sites, I typically suppress cache in the headers but that doesn’t always seem to work either.

Howard, that’s a hilarious story! Back in my machine shop days before I moved to high tech, I enjoyed trying to make sense of some of the poorly translated equipment manuals. If anyone had to rely on those to use the machines they would have remained unused!

Thank you Howard but I am a network and IT professional and I can confirm that my public IP here at this house hasn't changed since at the latest October 16, 2022 so clearly that's not the issue, at least on my end. The local device's IP is irrelevant but the public IP is not.

I never use guest accounts or hotspots even when traveling but when it happened last night I was sitting in my living room on my own restriction-free single-router WiFi. The same error has happened before but not for a while.

These are the checkboxes but they seem to come and go. Sometimes they’re there and other times they are not.

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Browsing the site looking at unread posts and not reloading pages or doing anything else out of the ordinary, I just got suddenly locked out! To post this, I had to shut off WiFi and use cellular only. As far as I can tell, my WiFi IP has not changed.

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Oops! I misspoke as they are still there on some topics as you can see here:

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They are gone now but the little image I posted was one of them directly from the site but I see that it is gone now too. Each entry had it and it looked for all intents and purposes like a check box except that it was a GIF image..

Although not an actual problem, there is a curiosity of what appear to be check boxes () beside each item in a forum. I don't recall seeing those before. Whatever they are, they are just GIFs so not checkable.