Recently I have been having significant issues getting into IBM websites (Connections Cloud, Bluemix, PartnerWorld etc) and it seems to be because of too many cookies. I am just leaving this here for anyone who thinks they might have a similar issue. I have heard of multiple people also having the same issue recently.

1. If you can’t get in but all your friends can
2. If you get unauthorized messages but you don’t get a log in screen

Solution

Check in Incognito mode / Private mode / Porno Mode (or whatever you want to call it) and see if your link works. If it does then it is probably cookies.

From an IBM.com webpage,

• in Chrome hit F12 and open developer tools
• Resources
• view all the cookies

• select the top one and start hitting DELETE DELETE DELETE and get rid of them all
• F5 / refresh
• and you are working again

 

There are resources/tool for clearing cookies in browsers but this is pretty quick.

In Internet Explorer

F12

 

Update

Thanks Eric !