Microsoft: No baked-in ad blocker for you!

Microsoft does not plan on baking an online ad blocker into its Edge browser, a company engineer said today, rebutting a piece published Wednesday that got wide follow-on coverage.
"We are not building a native ad blocker within [Microsoft Edge], but we will support third-party ad blockers like AdBlock and AdBlock Plus," tweeted Jacob Rossi, an engineer on the browser team, earlier today.
Rossi and another Microsoft developer, Kyle Pflug, who also tweeted comments about the purported in-Edge-ad