This and above comment: what is the purpose?

I was annoyed that when I swiped left to quickly check something from the previous page and then swiped right again to go back to the article, my scroll position on the page was completely lost, and a bunch of random ads kept loading as they came into view and shifting text around as I scrolled to try to find my spot again. I’m filled with murderous rage when things like this happen so I wanted to spare others from having a similar experience.

Do you have a reason that you don't use an adblocker?

It's pretty similar to theft of services.

People often can't read the articles when the click on links. Sometimes it's because of paywalls, but sometimes it's for other weird reasons, like regional restrictions, adblocker malfunctions, etc. Alternate links provide alternate ways for people to read the articles.

Circumventing paywalls or other annoyances when having no adblocker installed.