[abalaji]

I wanted to check out the app and found it hilarious that I had to go through a rabbit hole of links to other articles about the app to actually get to a direct link to the app. lithub --> mentalfloss --> WaPo --> AppStore

Any idea why articles do this--is it for engagement or SEO?

[saghm]

Honestly, I'd guess it's just laziness and/or naivety; one publication does a story and puts in their referrer link, and then the person at the next publication just copy/pastes the link they found to the first story rather than doing the extra work to get the direct link. Then the next publication sees that story, and pastes a link to that one, etc...

[unraveller]

To show that their perfect influencer personality has no unauthorized opinions or alternative.

https://www.serialreader.org

https://1paragraph.app

[CrazedGeek]

To save others the trouble, the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/serial-reader/id1077180804

[rr808]

android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mschmitt.s...