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Is there any word on this being released for Android at some point?

The Nightly branch of Firefox for Android (which I personally use day by day and find very stable) has an option for "Tracking Protection". Works like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir... but also in non-private mode.

Why not use Private Browsing in Firefox for Android?

That was my first thought (and what I think the path would be for getting this browser experience on Android). It's basically Firefox for Android, private browsing mode with tracking protection enabled, but it doesn't seem to be possible to set private browsing as the default. Thus any link from other applications will automatically open in a tracking friendly context first.

Scratch that.

I was looking for the wrong about:config value. While you can't have private browsing mode be the default, it is in fact possible to enable tracking protection outside private browsing mode, so you can get these same benefits (privacy.trackingprotection.enabled in about:config).

Wish this would be exposed in the UI settings.

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