Google can't do it, with their resources.

If Google can't do it, no one can. Unless Google don't care enough, but even in that case, why would anyone else bother if the consequences cost less than the monitoring?

As far as I can tell right now, the consequences cost nothing.

   > Going online without an adblocker just feels like playing with fire, especially nowadays.

It feels more like having casual unprotected sex. Easy to do in the moment, easy to ignore the risk, painful if "it never happens to me" doesn't come up cats eyes this time.

If we called the first programs that self-propagated worms and viruses as per the real world analogy, then I think it's time we rebrand adblockers as "condoms".

Why would they? What's your recourse as a consumer if they fuck up your hardware? In the extremely unlikely event you manage to get it in front of a Court, they could point to the 3 other ad networks also present on the same page, and to the wider internet just infested with the fucking things. Odds are incredibly long you could even prove you were infected with whichever virus, and then what do you get? A few years of identity theft protection, a new phone if you're VERY lucky?