The first thing I notice is a large cookie popup. When I click "Decline", it takes me to www.google.com. It is a bit irksome because I didn't want to visit www.google.com. Yet this website somehow decided that I must visit www.google.com if I choose to decline their cookie popup.

Can we not add such weird patterns to websites please? I won't go as far as saying that this is user hostile but it does leave a bad taste! It is better to blank the page than redirect me to another website I never wanted to visit.