Yes, yes, copyrights and creators are important and all that, but this result is particularly pointless; a friend – based in the USA – posted the following recipe URL for doughnuts:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/yeast-doughnuts-recipe-1942740

…but when you access it from the UK the website excitably and annoyingly punches the URL through a series of redirects, and ends up at an irrelevant search page after an insecure HTTP downgrade, as well as a GDPR clickthrough:

• https://foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/alton-brown/yeast-doughnuts-recipe-1942740?utm_source=foodnetwork.com&utm_medium=domestic
• http://foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/yeast-doughnuts?utm_source=foodnetwork.com&utm_medium=domestic (WHY HTTP?)
• https://foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/yeast-doughnuts?utm_source=foodnetwork.com&utm_medium=domestic

This might be a copyright thing, or it might be the proprietors of the “.co.uk” Food Network website not being aware that in a globalised world people might want to access actual content on the “.com” website without being redirected.

By contrast, Amazon deal with this quite elegantly, offering you a popup to inform you that you might want to be using the “.co.uk” website instead; surely it can’t be that hard?

In any case: I want a doughnut.