~~but Mozilla itself doesn’t want to broach the topic.~~
Again, a reminder that Mozilla plans to continue support for the Manifest Version 2 blocking WebRequest API (this API powers, for example, uBlock Origin) while simultaneously supporting Manifest Version 3.
~~Years ago, Mozilla would explicitly call ad blocking a privacy feature, and proclaim it explicitly.~~
Ahem! https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/adblocker/
Cooking up conspiracy theory instead of research is easy, is not it?
Seems to have some severe bugs: https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft/issues