It‘s not that different today. Back then it was people paying directly. Now ads on TLC pay them.

Is this the application that shows more and more code whenever you hit a key on the keyboard?

It‘s basically the proverbial frog in the pot. Emphasis on the proverbial because frogs jump actually do leave the pot when it‘s too hot.

Choppin‘ that meat

I had the same happen to my Win 11 install. Best ad for Linux i‘ve ever gotten. I installed Bazzite OS on that machine a day later and over the next few days my other machines got Fedora.