Mozilla wants Firefox to be a mainstream browser that anyone can use. Ad blocking introduces the risk of site breakage, and the majority of the population don't have the knowledge to deal with it.

This is what Firefox blocks by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

In 2008. You know, the year the majority of Americans didn't approve of gay marriage? [1] The year Obama said that marriage is between a man and a woman? [2]

Applying modern sensibilities to history is stupid.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111017161259/http://www.quinni...

[2] https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/obama-says-...

I am not particularly interested in what the majority of people thought at the time, especially not when the year you're citing is 2008, and not 1886.

And also in 2014 when he was appointed CEO and also today. Eich has the same position today.

> It's probably the kind of user that has telemetry off.

If less than 4% of users use uBO, which the kind of users you're referencing claim is the primary reason they use Firefox, I doubt many users disable telemetry either.

Phoning an ambulance after finding me ~24 hours after drinking a bottle of antifreeze.