SSRN "unusual download pattern" I use SSRN extensively in my work. From time to time, I even use SSRN to find my own papers. (Sometimes (often), it's just much easier for me to go on my own research page and click on the SSRN link than search through my directory)

I think as a result of this and my regular downloads of other people's papers, SSRN has flagged me as a user with an "unusual download pattern":


  What Happened?
  
  We have observed an unusual download pattern.
  
  The reason why this might happen:

Accessing through a proxy server
Having problems downloading a paper
Accidentally downloading a paper too frequently

  
  Please consider signing in or creating a free account. You can
  continue downloading this paper and you will no longer see this page.
  It also helps us track reader interest and provide accurate download
  counts to our authors and readers.


As explained above, I am not "accidentally downloading a paper too frequently", I am rather purposefully doing so.

I would like to keep using SSRN without having to sign in. 


Has anyone encountered the same problem and found a solution to keep using SSRN "anonymously"?


I've tried using other browsers, including "brand new" browsers that I just downloaded and installed, to no avail.
If that did not work, would something like clearing my cookies help at all (are cookies browser specific?)?
Such sites often have measures against crawlers. Sometimes normal users can trigger them. For example some university institutes which have a single IP address for everybody at the institute can even get blocked permanently until someone mails the site admin and explains the situation, which may get the IP whitelisted.

When it is triggered by you alone, probably the best choice is either to slow down and wait a bit between requesting stuff, reconnect your internet connection to get a new IP, or to accept the suggested solution and use a free account to prove them you're human and not a crawler.

Such blocks are most the time IP based. If cookies help you at all, you should NOT delete them, so the site can track you as individual user.

If deleting cookies would help, crawlers would just delete them (or not store them at all), so the site would have no benefit to allow access after you deleted the cookies. If changing the user agent would help, crawlers would just randomize the user agent string. So you can be pretty sure, that such things will not help you.