Puzzled by this thread. Living in Norway, using Firefox/Chrome on Android 8.1, Edge/Firefox/Chrome on Win10, Firefox/Chrome on Win7. No adblockers installed. No redirection problems at all. Perhaps I'm just lucky.
It's because you are a Muppet! ;-)
Perhaps I should have been more specific. I've tried accessing H&V on several computers after reading this thread - fresh Windows installs and old ones, at work and at home, that I've never used to read this site before. No redirection problems whatsoever as a guest or as a logged-on user.
If my user status on H&V is able to affect the way the site behaves the very first time it's accessed on a computer, tinfoil is the first item on my next shopping list. I might need a hat.
Or maybe I'm just a muppet (without the capital M) ;-)