This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...

Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work.

EDIT: I did see it’s at least referenced at the end.