I will add for the U.S. based satellites the disc images are from the NOAA GOES sats which are in a Geosynchronous orbit but there is also the NOAA-15/18/19 which are lower in a Sun-synchronous orbit and you get a strip as it passes over.
I thought this was around the corner years ago when Intel and partners had RealSense modules being built into laptops but it seems like all the players have shifted focus to more enterprise and industrial markets.
They have been rolling out ad-blocker detection with warning popups telling you to disable it. Mine were skippable the first few times but that lead to a final 3 warnings with the player refusing to load after. They seem to be doing a lot of A/B testing with the system currently.
The Midwest absolutely has seen a lot of fiber going in the ground with federal money the past couple years and Metronet has expanded pretty aggressively.