This is a huge step forward as I assume those trackers they're talking about include all ads by definition (anyone know of any ads that don't track?). If that is indeed the case, this seems to be the first browser from a major vendor to include ad blocking by default (AFAIK). That is huge news. We are looking at the future of browsers here with regards to such protection and likely a changing of the guard as Chrome falls out of favor due to Google's pro-ad (and therefore pro-malware/anti-privacy) stance ... albeit I'm sure someone will fork Chromium and add such features in at some point. This seems to be a good first step for Mozilla / Firefox in this direction and I truly hope that they continue this trend for all their other products. I'm pretty sure there is no need to explain why having this as the default (as opposed to plugins that have been available for well over a decade) is a huge deal.
