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I know ... But people actually literally want this.
Maybe FF is what we install for normies while we use forks for other flavours.
No-one except advertisers want this.
Most people simply do not care at all.
Why do advertisers want you to have tools that help you detect covert advertising?
In long term, for substituting them with their own links. In short term it's a nice feature.
Because Mozilla takes a metric shitload of your data via fakespot such as (but not limited to)
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
And then sells it to advertisers