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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?
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
In long term, for substituting them with their own links. In short term it's a nice feature.